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The spicules are small, short warty spindles and double spindles. 

 They are of small size and exceedingly warty. The spicules in the 

 body walls of the polyps are somewhat longer, more slender spindles, 

 with more delicate points and verrucas. 



The color of the colony is bright coral red. The polyps, in pre- 

 served specimens, are pure white. 



Beautifully expanded colonies of this fine species are in the col- 

 lection at the Hopkins Laboratory, Pacific Grove, California. They 

 were secured in Monterey Bay, but the depth is not indicated. 



Type-specimen. — Hopkins Laboratory, Pacific Grove, California. 



Named for Mr. M. II. Spaulding, formerly of Stanford University. 



Family GORGONID^E. 



Colony branched, usually fiabellate. Axis horny, or horny and 

 calcareous. Polyps completely retractile and bilaterally disposed. 

 Impressions of the canals evident on the surface of the stem and 

 branches, and bilaterally disposed. Ccenenchyma smooth. Spicules 

 small spindles, arranged in one layer. 



Genus LEPTOGORGIA Milne Edwards, emended by Verrill. 



Colony fiabellate, with often more or less anastomosis of the 

 branches. Calyces verruciform or included, not distributed evenly 

 over the surface, but leaving a broad band on front of stem and 

 branches bare. 



? LEPTOGORGIA FLOR-ffi Verrill. 



Leptogorgia florae Verrill, Trans. Connecticut Acad. Arts and Sci., I, Pt. 2, 1867 

 to 1871, p. 387. 



A large dried specimen in the collection of the University of Cali- 

 fornia is referred with some doubt to this species. It is very much 

 larger than the ty\^ described by Verrill, which was about 6 inches 

 high. The specimen before me is over 2 feet high. In detail, how- 

 ever, it agrees fairly well with the original description. 



The locality is not stated on the label, which, however, gives the 

 depth at 80 fathoms. 



The type was secured !>y F\ II. Bradley. The species is reported 

 by Verrill as found at Panama and Pearl Islands. 



LEPTOGORGIA PURPUREA (Pallas). 



Gorgonia purpurea Pallas, Elenchus Zoophytorum, 17G7, p. 187. 



Colony fiabellate, 12.5 cm. high by 16.2 cm. broad. Stem irregu- 

 larly sinuate, scarcely flattened, 3 nun. broad, giving off opposite 

 branches at intervals of 3 to L3 nun. Some of the branches again 

 divide once or twice. The terminal branehlets are somewhat flat- 



