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As pleased the ear of God! Original, 
Unmarr’d, unfaded work of Deity, 
From age to age enduring and unchanged, 
Majestical, inimitable, vast. 
* * * * * * * 
Thou bow’dst thy glorious head to none, 
Heard’st none, to none did honour but to God, 
Thy Maker, only worthy to receive 
Thy great obeisance !’”,—Pol/ok. 
Genus XIX. GORGONTIA, Linneus. 
Gen. Char. Polype-mass rooted, arborescent, consisting of a 
central axis, barked with a polypiferous crust; the axis horny, 
continuous and flexible, branched in coequality with the polype- 
mass ; the crust, when recent, soft and fleshy, when dried, porous 
and friable ; the orifices of the polype-cells more or less protube- 
rant.—Dr. Johnston. 
1. Goreonta veRRUCOosA, Sea-fern, or Sea-fan, Cole. 
(Plate XII. fig. 42.) . 
Hab, Deep water. Mount’s Bay, Cornwall, Mr. Batten ; 
abundant on the south coast, Couch; plentiful, Devon- 
shire, Montague; Exmouth, Rev. T. Hincks. Dr. Fleming 
states that it was obtained in Scotland by Sowerby. 
This has a shrubby appearance, being above a foot in 
height, and sixteen or seventeen inches in breadth. It has 
by some been called “Sea-heath.” It is fixed to rocks by 
