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1. Leiopathes glaberrima. b. m. 

 JLeiopathes glaherrima, Gray, Proc. Comm. Sci. Zool. Soc. ^.41. 



Antipathes glaberrima, Esper, ii. t. 9. 

 1 Antipathes dirhotoma, Palias, 216. 

 Marsillii, Lith. no. 9. t. 101. f. 21 ? 

 The Black coral of commerce. 

 Mediterranean ; Malta. 



Marsilli observed tlie coral covered with minute blotches ou one 

 side when he 6rst obtained it. 



2. Leiopathes Boscii. 



" Stem flexible, branched ; branches diverging, extremities seta- 

 ceous." 



Antipathes Boscii, Lamx. Pol. Flex. 37.i. t, 14. f. 5 ; Corallina, 

 191. t. 14. f. 5. 



Caroliua. 



Lamaroux's figures represent the bark forming small masses be- 

 tvveen the branchlets, as I have observed it on the Madeira speci- 

 raen. 



Some of the smooth species referred to the genus Antipathes by 

 Esper, as A. foeniculacea, t. 7 ; A. clathrata, Palias, Esper, t. 2; 

 A. lingulata, Esper, t. 5, are evidently the axes of some species of 

 Gorgoniadte that have lošt their bark. 



2. Antipathes. 



Antipathes, Gray, Syn. B.M. 1842. 



Bark fleshv, with imbedded, large and small brown (siliceous) 

 platės, easily "deciduous. Axis simple or branched, horny, covered 

 with numerous close small subcylindrical spines. 



I\Ir. Dana observes, — " The examination of the animal of two 

 species {A. anguina and A. arhorea, t. 56. f. 1, 2), has led to an 

 arrangemeut of them with Actinoida, as the tentacles have the 

 naked character peculiar to this suborder, and the polypes closely 

 resemble those of the Madreporte in appearance and habit."— !)«««, 

 p. 57;J. 



From the examination of the animal of A. glaberrima and A. an- 

 guina, I am led to the opposite conclusion that they are true zoo- 

 phytes. I am aware that the tentacles do not appear pinnated when 

 they are examined after they have been dried, but this is the case 

 vvitii the animals of all the Gorgoniadee I have examiued under 

 similar conditions. The pinnae appear to be permanently withdrawn 

 under such circumstances. 



* Coral simple, flexuous or spirai, unbranched. Cirripathes. 

 1, Antipathes spiralis, Palias, P.Z. S. 1857, p. 113; Radiata, 

 pi. 6. B.M. 



Gorgonia spiralis, Linn. S. N. 1290. 

 Antipathes spiralis, Ellis, Zooph. 99. t. 19. f. 1-6. 

 MoUucca (Ellis). 



