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the brighter!: colored of all this genus, not unlike fire ; 

 but the flefh as it becomes dry is apt to fall from the bone; 

 the main ftems grow up a little, waving as they tend to- 

 wards the tops. The mouths are oblong ; they are larger 

 and fewer on the main ftems, than on the fmall fide 

 branches, where they are in great abundance. 



3. Gorgonia juncea. 



RuJJj-Iike G or go ft. 



Gorgonia fimpliciffina This Gorgon has a Angle 



teres utrinque atte?2iiata^ round ftem, fmaller at each 

 ojfe cor?ieo fufco^ carne end. The bone is of a dark- 

 ochracea bifulcata, ofculis colored horny confiftence ; 

 crebris linearibas ?iotata. this is covered with an orange- 

 colored flefh, full of longifh 

 little mouths. 



This orange-colored Sea-Whip was found by Mr. Greg 

 in the new ceded iflands, growing on a fhell, and is very 

 flexible when alive, and about three feet long. There 

 are two fmall furrows, one on each fide, which are con- 

 tinued the whole length of the animal : thefe are the 

 tubes, funk in, with which the fuckers and mouths did 

 communicate, when the animal was alive. 



4. Gorgonia ceratophyta. 



Gorgonia dichotoma^ 

 axillis divaricatisy ramis 

 virgatis afcendentibus bi- 

 fukatis, came purpurea^ 

 polypis nlveis oftotentacu- 

 latis di/iiche /par/Is, ojfe 

 atro comeo fuffuha. 



Horned Gorgonia. T a b . 1 2 . 



Fig. 2. 

 This Gorgon grows in a fub- 3. 



divided manner; the branches 



fland afunder, and grow erecl, 



like twio;s. Thefe have two 



furrows on them ; their flefh. 



is of a purple color, and their 



polypes fnow white, having 



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