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Eunicca ramulosa Ehr. 1834. 



Sv\. Gorgonia spicifera Dana, 184G. — Florida; L. Agassiz. 



Eunicea Tourneforti M. Edw. 1857. — Florida and West Indies; G. Wurde- 



niami. 



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 Eunicca Rousseaui M. Edw. 1857. — Turk's Island, W. I. ; J. E. Webber. 



Muricea spicifera Lamx. 1821. 



Syn. Gorgonia muricala (pars) Pallas. — Florida and West Indies; 

 L. Agassiz. 



Muricea lima M. Edw. 1857. 



Syn. Gorgonia lima Lamk. — Florida; L. Agassiz. 



Muricea elongata Lamx. 1 821. — Florida and West Indies; L. Agassiz. 



Muricea laxa Veuuill. 



Very slender, with long flexuous branches. . This is closely allied to M 

 elongata, but has longer and very acute verruca?, which are much more 

 loosely arranged and armed with very long, sharp spicula. Axis nearly 

 terete, somewhat compressed at the axils. Color light yellow. — Florida; 

 L. Agassiz. 



Muricea elegans Ag. MS. 



A large erect species, irregularly pinnate and bipinnate, branching 

 marly in a plane. Trunk stout and nearly erect, transversely com- 

 pressed ; branches very numerous, curved, often pendulous. Verrucas 

 broad, conical, spreading, armed with large spicula. Color orange. — 

 Oft' Charleston, South Carolina; L. Agassiz. 



Muricea echinata Val. Comptes-rendus. 1855. (No description.) 



Syn. Muricea echinata M. Edw. Coralliaircs, 185 7. — Panama; C. F. 

 Da.vis, J. II. Sternberg. 



Muricea robusta Verrill. 



This is a low , stout species, branching very irregularly in a subdichoto 

 mous manner, with thick, clavate, crooked branches. Cells crowded, large, 

 open, little prominent, especially towards the base, where they open out- 

 wan!. Spicula numerous, short and thick. Color brownish yellow or 

 purple. — Acapulco, Mexico ; A. Agassiz. 



Muricea hebes Verrill. 



The specimens of this species, which are probably young, have erect, 

 simple, or sparingly diehotomous stalks, three or four inches high, slender at 

 the base, but thick and clavate above. The, verruca 1 are crowded, broad, 

 and prominent, armed with numerous rather sharp spicula. Color deep 

 reddish purple, or dark brown. It resembles Gonigoria clavata Gray, 

 which should be referred to the genus Muricea, but the latter is stouter, 

 with shorter and more crowded cells. The axis is also described as black, 

 while in the present species it is i'uscous. — Acapulco, Mexico; A. Agassiz. 



