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a horny disc; the warty branches expand laterally from 
near the base. The axis is black, smooth, and glossy, 
of a compact horny consistence, having a white pith, like 
that of a rush, in the centre. In a living specimen the 
external crust is fleshy and flesh-coloured. Crust, when 
dried, whitish, warty, and friable, with numerous polype- 
cells. 
It is thought to be the same as Gorgonia viminalis. It 
is figured by Elhs (plate xxvii.), and he says, “This was 
found on the coast of Cornwall. The outside of it is 
covered over with a crust, full of little lumps like warts, 
which, when dissolved in vinegar, discover the contracted 
bodies of polypes with eight claws.” The first specimen I 
ever saw of this was sent to me by a young lady from De- 
vonshire, among some Algz, to be named. I afterwards 
got specimens of it from Miss Cutler, when I had the plea- 
sure of visiting her in 1851, in her sweet residence at Bud- 
leigh Salterton. 
2. Goreonia PInNaTA, Professor L. Forbes. 
Hab. Attached to stones in the Sound of Skye, Mr. 
M‘Andrew and E. Forbes. 
«When taken alive it was of a cream-white colour. The 
polypes are white, with eight dull white granular pinnated 
