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a horny disc ; the warty branches expand laterally from 

 near the base. The axis is black, smooth, and glossy, 

 of a compact horny consistence, having a white pith, like 

 that of a rush, in the centre. In a living specimen the 

 external crust is fleshy and flesh-coloured. Crust, when 

 dried, whitish, warty, and friable, with numerous polype- 

 cells. 



It is thought to be the same as Gorgonia v'lminalis. It 

 is figured by Ellis (plate xxvii.), and he says, "Tliis was 

 found on the coast of Cornwall. The outside of it is 

 covered over with a crust, full of little lumps like warts, 

 which, when dissolved in vinegar, discover the contracted 

 bodies of polypes with eight claws.'"' The first specimen I 

 ever saw of this was sent to me by a young lady from De- 

 vonshire, among some Alga3, to be named. I afterwards 

 got specimens of it from Miss Cutler, when I had the plea- 

 sure of visiting her in 1851, in her sweet residence at Bud- 

 leigh Salterton. 



2. Gorgonia pinnata. Professor E. Forbes. 



Hab. Attached to stones in the Sound of Skve, Mr. 

 M 'Andrew and E. Forbes. 



" '\A'hcn taken alive it was of a cream-white colour. The 

 polypes are w^hite, with eight dull white granular pinnated 



