ANTIPATHES. .103 



like the foxtail-grafs. Thefe panicles are compofed of 

 very rough thorny minute branches, which are twice 

 as long on one fide of the ftem as the other. The out- 

 fide of this Antipathes is of greyifh color ; the infide is 

 black and very brittle. It is near two feet high. 



This was brought from South-Carolina, and prefented 

 to Corbyn Morris, Efq. F. R. S. and has not before been- 

 defcribed. 



6. Antipathes CuprefTus. Cyprefs Antipathes. 



Antipathes Jimp lex fca- This Antipathes grows in 



bra paiiicuLita y ramis re- the form of a iingle panicle, 

 curvatis. full of minute prickles, with 



the little branches bending up- 

 wards. 



G or gonia Abies. Linn. Syft. Nat. Ed. 12. pag. 1290. 



Dr. Linnaeus has clalTed this elegant fea production un- 

 der his genus of Gorgonias, to which'it is very nearly al- 

 lied ; but the fie ill of this tribe is fo remarkably gelati- 

 nous, and the whole bone, or hard part, is io covered 

 with inines, which even are to be dillinguimed in the in- 

 terior laminae, that there is fufficient reafon for making it 

 of another genus. 



There is a moil elegant fpecimen of this in the Britifh 

 Mufeum, and very good figures of it in Rumphius and 

 Seba.. It grows in the Eaft-Indian ocean among the fpice 

 iflands. 



X. ISIS, 



