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This portion is 2 to 3 cm. broad below, and 1 cm. above, and bears the bases of several 

 branches which have been broken off. Other portions bear parts of branches. The 

 sclerenchyma appeal's smooth, but under a lens is seen to be covered with very numerous 

 fine wart-like spines (cf. Klunz., op. cit, pi. iv. fig. 5). 



Klunzinger regards his specimen as identical with that obtained from the same area 

 by Ehrenberg, and as probably agreeing with Esper's Antipatlics compressa, or rather 

 with that specimen shown in his pi. xiii. fig. 1 ; his description and the other figures 

 probably refer to a decorticated Gorgonid. Klunzinger's description is not sufficient for 

 specific purposes, and is based on a very fragmentary specimen. 



Habitat. — Red Sea. 



