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ple^ with stnall mouths placed irregularhj, having polypes with 

 eight tentacles : the hone is black, horny, and slightly striated on 

 the large branches."" 



Vignette, No. 19, Page 161. 

 Flabellum Veneris, Ellis, Corall. 61. pi. 26. fig. A— M. (foreign). Borl. 



Cornw. 238 Gorgonia Flabellum, Lin. Syst. 1298. Mull. Zool. 



Dan. prod. 253. Ellis and Soland. Zooph. 92- Berk. Syn. i. 212. 



Turt. Grael. iv. 651. Turt. Brit. Faun. 206. Jameson m Wern. Mem. 



i. 561. F/e/n. Brit. Anim. 511. 



Hah. " The Flabellum veneris has been found on the shores of 



Mount's Bay after a storm, but whether from a wrecked vessel, or 



torn off by the violence of the waves from some rock in the Bay, is 



not to be asserted positively," Borlasse. " Leith Shore, found by 



the late Mr Mackay," Jameson, " Mr Neill informs me that he saw 



Mr Mackay's specimen shortly after it was found, and that it had 



all the aspect of being fresh and recent," Fleming. 



Gorgonia lepadifera, " this Gorgon is dichotomous : it is 

 almost covered ivith mouths, which are placed close together, hang- 

 ing over one another ; they are bell-shaped, bent doivnicards, and 

 full of small scales : the flesh is covered with minute whitish scales. 

 The bone in the larger branches is testaceous, or rather like bone, 



and in the smaller ones horny ^ 



Gorgonia lepadifera, Lin. Syst- 1289. Mull. Zool. Dan. prod. 254. Ellis 

 in Phil. Trans, abridg. xiii. 728, pi. 12, fig. 12. Ellis and Soland. Zooph. 



84. tab. 13, fig. 1, 2. Wern. Mem. i. 560. Stew. Elem. ii. 430 



Primnoa lepadifera, Flem. Brit Anim. 513. 

 Hab. " Found on the coast of Aberdeenshire, and coasts of Shet- 

 land islands," Jameson. 



Isis HiPPURis, " has a jointed stony stem, which rises into 

 many loose branches. The bone or support of the animal consists 

 oj white, cylindrical, stony, channelled joints, connected together 

 by black contracted horny intermediate ones. The flesh is lohit- 

 ish, plump and full of minute vessels ; the surface of it is full of 

 the little mouths of the cells, which are disposed in a quincunx 

 order, covering the polypes with eight claws." 



Isis Hippuris, Lin. Syst. 1287- Ellis and Soland. Zooph. 105, tab. 3, fig. 

 1 — 5. Jameson in Wern. Mem. i. 560. Stew. Elem. ii. 429. Stark, 

 Elem. ii. 427, pi. 8. fig. 7, 8- 

 Hab. " Said by the late Dr Walker to occur on the east coast of 

 Scotland, and also in the Orkney islands," Jameson. 



