HYPNOGORGIADJE. 



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B.M. 



128. Phenilia sanguinolenta. 



Coral yellowish ; branches flexuous, interwoven ; branchlets short, 

 clavate, diverging- ; cells largo 'dark brick-red, making the coral look 

 as if spotted with blood. 



Phenilia sauguiuoleuta, Gray, P. Z. S. 1S50, p. 482. 



Hah. ? 



Fiif. 9. 



Phenilia sanguinolenta. 



b. Bark formed of large imbedded spicnles ; poh/pe-cells adpressed to the 

 sides of the branches, covered ivith ivell-markcd spicules, month of cell 

 spinose. 



Fam. 15. HYPNOGORGIADvE. 



Coral branched ; branches numerous, drooping, pendulous ; branch- 

 lets subopposite. Bark rough, with naked spicules. Calyces adpressed, 

 adnate to the sides of the branches, formed of spicules, mouth large, 

 ciliated. Axis calcareous, black. 



