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The base, which is present in one example, is calcareous, and spreads out 

 widely and irregularly over a fragment of dead coral. The calicles are larger 

 than in either of the two preceding species; they mostly stand at nearly right 

 angles to the branches, but those near the tips are (jldique; they are coiistri(;ted 

 somewhat above the swollen base, but enlarged and eight-lobed at the sunmiit. 

 The sides of the calicles are covered with unusually large, fusiform and oblong, 

 finely warted spicula, longitudinally and obliquely arranged; at their bases, and 

 in the coenenchyma near their bases, are longer and thicker fusiform spicuk, 

 usually acute and finely warted or spinulated ; near and around the bases of 

 the terminal calicles (Fig. 5) these often become remarkably large. The coenen- 

 chyma elsewhere on the branches is filled with much elongated, slender, acute, 

 fusiform spicula of the same character, but smaller; on the main stem, near the 

 base, they are much smaller, short, oblong, blunt, and roughly warted. 



Height, 210 mm.; breadth, 60 mm. 



The following specimens were dredged by the Blake, 1877-79. 



Dasygorgia squamata Verrill, sp. nov. 



Coral spirally branched, nearly as in the preceding species, with which it 

 agrees nearly in size and appearance. 



The axis is yellowish or amber-colored, with a pale iridescence. The calicles 

 are large, about the same in size and shape as those of D. squamosa, and mostly 

 stand nearly at right angles to the branch. They are decidedly eidarged at 

 the summit, and are unusually smooth, owing to the nature of the spicula, 

 which are rather large, flat and smooth, scale-like, oval, oblong, or irregular in 

 shape, and so closely imbricated and fitted together as to resemble a coat of 

 mail, giving the surface of the calicles a smooth appearance under the micro- 

 scope; these flat spicula are iridescent; near the summit and on the eight 

 lobes, at the bases of the tentacles the spicula become smaller, narrower, and 

 oblong. The coenenchyma is filled with smaller, smoothish, flat, oblong and 

 irregular, scale-like spicula, which become larger and more scale-like near the 

 calicles. 



The following specimens were dredged by the Blake, 1878-79. 



