GORGOi\IAD^ : GORGONIA. 169 



Plate XXXII. Fig. 2. 



Warted Sea-fan, Ellis CoraW. 67. no. 1. t. 27. fig. a, J. 1,2, 3. — Gorgonia placomus. 

 Fall. Elench. 201. Lin. Syst. 1290. Ellis and Soland. Zooph. 80. Esper Gor- 

 gon, tab. 33, 34, and 34 A. Lamarck in Mem. du Mus. ii. 83. Lam. Anim 

 Vert. ii. 316: 2de edit. ii. 492. Flem. Brit. Anim. 512. Couch Zooph. Cornw. 

 25 : Corn. Faun, iii, 55, pi, 12, fig. 2. 



Hah. Coast of Cornwall, Ellis. " Ellis must have been very for- 

 tunate to obtain a specimen on this coast, for after examining many 

 scores of Gorgonia? from the English channel, I have not seen a single 

 specimen, and Mr. Peach of Goran informs me that he has never 

 seen a specimen, so that on the south coast at least it is very rare." 

 R. Q. Couch. 



" This Sea-Fan is of a reddish brown colour;" "has its branches 

 disposed in a dichotomous order and a flattish form ; they bend irre- 

 gularly towards one another, but rarely unite. Their mouths are 

 conical, project, and are surrounded at top by little spines. The bone 

 or support is nearly of the substance of wood." Ellis. 



4. G. ANCEPs, hranclied., subdicJiotomous ; hranches with the 

 flesh flat on each side, with a row of little mouths along both the 

 margins. Mr. Dale.* 



Plate XXXII. Fig. S. 



Keratopliyton dichotomum ; caule et raratilis leviter compressis, Rail Syn. 32. — Sea 

 Willow, Ellis Corall. C8. no. 2, tab. 27, fig. g. — Gorgonia anceps, Pall. Elench. 

 183. ^//ts and (Sb/fwcf. Zooph. 89. Zew. Syst. 1292. iJsper Pflanz. Gorg. tab. 

 7, fig. 1-3. Lum. Anim. s. Vert. ii. 317 : 2de edit. ii. 494. Lamour. Cor. Flex. 

 395. Lamarck in Mem. du Mus. ii. 84. Fleni. Brit. Anim. 512. — Pterogorgia 

 anceps, Elirenh. Corall. 1 45. 



Hah. Deep water, very rare. Found by Mr. Dale growing near 

 Margate, Dillenius. Now and then found on the coast of Great 

 Britain and Ireland ; but not frequently, Ellis. 



" This Gorgon is branched nearly in a subdivided manner." " The 



* " Samuel Dale, Medicus et Pharmacopoeus vicinus et familiaris noster, Bantrias 

 in Essexia degens," one of the four botanists to whom Ray acknowledges his greatest 

 obligations in the compilation of his " Historia Plantarimi." Prcef. 1686. — He died 

 in 1739, cet. 80. Petiver aftectionately styles him "my very kind friend," and 

 " our ciurious brother." — In the latter period of his life he settled as a physician at 

 Bocking. He is tlie author of a " Pharmacologia," and of a History of Harwich, — 

 both works of merit, and once of repute. See Pulteney's Sketches, vol. ii. p. 122-8. 

 Pulteney says he was a F.R.S., but I do not find his name in the list of Fellows 

 given by Dr. Thomson. 



