96 G O R G O N I A. 



purpureis diftichis^ ojfe The flefh is of a pale yellow 

 corrieo jlavefcente. color, with rows on both fides 



of purple mouths. The bone 

 is horny and yellowifh. 



Tab. 16. 



Plukenetamalth. tab. 452. fig. 3. 



This beautiful Sea-Feather was fent me from Cape 

 Coaft Cattle, in Africa. 



It grows flat, about a foot high ; the ftem is often full 

 of fmall barnacles, which it covers over. The old 

 branches are irregular, but the young branches are pin- 

 nated, like the Sertularia abietina, or Sea-Fir veficular 

 Coralline. 



23. Gorgonia elongata. Forked Gorgon. 



Gorgonia dichotoma di- This Gorgon has long eredl 



varicata^ ramis loitgiori- branches, which are fubdi- 

 bus afcendejitibus, came vided and divaricated. The 

 tetrago?ia rubra crajja^ flefh is of a vermillion color, 

 ofculis ereSiis fecundum very plump and fquare ; the 

 angulos fubimbricatiS) ojfe little mouths are placed along 

 tenui corneo flavefcente. the corners ; they are erect, 



and difpofed fomething like 

 tiles by one another. The 

 bone is of a horny confiftence, 

 very flender, and of a yellowifh 

 color. 



Gorgonia elongata. Linn. Syft. Nat. Ed. 12. p. 1291. 



This fcarlet Sea-Shrub was brought from the Weft In- 

 dies. My fpecimen is about eighteen inches high. The 

 flefh is full of little waits, with points looking upwards ; 

 5 thefe 



