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POLYPI. 
Corallina cylindrica . —The Cylindrical Corallina. 
Plate CIV. fig. 8. 
White, slender and greatly branched, joints cylindrical and 
subequal. Inhabits the American coasts. 
Genus 8.— GORGONIA.— Linnaeus. 
Generic Character. —Polypiferous mass fixed, branching and 
composed of a central axis and outer bark; adhering at the 
base, caulescent, branched and substriated externally, horny, 
solid and flexible; the axis and branches covered by a fleshy 
crust; and containing polypi in its recent state; when dried be¬ 
comes spongy, porous, and covered by superficial or projecting 
cells. 
* With superficial cells, appearing like projecting granules, or 
tubercles. 
Gorgonia verriculata .— The Warted Gorgonia. 
Plate CIV. fig. 11. 
Very large, branched, and fan-shaped; ramuli divaricate, and 
joined at the reticulation; crust white, with scattered warty 
pores. Inhabits the Indian seas. 
** With cylindrical or turbinated cells projecting greatly. 
Gorgonia lepadifera. — The Stony Gorgonia. 
Plate CIV. fig. 12. 
branched with squamose, clustered, reflexed, and companu- 
late papillae. Inhabits the North seas. 
Genus 9.—ANTIPATHES.— Lamarck. 
Generic Character. — With a branched and fixed polypiferous 
inass, composed of an outer crust and central axis, the latter 
with a foot, and fixed by its base, caulescent, branched, simple 
or corneous, solid, flexible, and generally spinous; with a poly¬ 
piferous gelatinous crust, which covers the axis arid branches in 
a living state, but disappearing when removed from the water. 
