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2. Antipathes anguina. b. m. 



Antipathea anguina, Dana, /. c. 576. t. 56. f. 1. 

 Cirripathes Sieboldii, Blaiiiv. 

 Feejee Islauds. 



3. Antipathes gracilis. B. M. 



Slender, tapering, slightly spinose. 

 Madeira {Mason). 



** Coral hranched. 



4. Antipathes furcata. B. M. 



Antipathes furcata, Seba, iii. t. 107. f. 4. 



Coral shrub-like, brauched, repeatedly forked ; branches slender, 

 elongate, filiform ; stem slender, short, smooth. 

 Madeira {Mr. Mason, 1857). 



5. Antipathes fruticosa. B. M. 



Coral shrub-like, very branchy ; branchlets liuear, elongate, witb 

 a few distant elongate branches, sometimes iii a single row coming 

 from the šame side of the branchlet ; spinules rather far apart. 



Stephens Island (/. B. Jukeš). 



6. Antipathes pluma. B. M. 



Coral fan-like, branched, forked ; branchlets piimate, simple, in 

 two opposite diverging series ; spinules very close, crowded. 

 Hab. ? 



7. Antipathes pedata. B. M. 



Coral fan-like, on one plane, branched ; branchlets linear, elon- 

 gate, in one series on the upper side of the arched branches, and 

 branched on the inner side. 



West Indies {Scrivener) . 



8. Antipathes reticulata. B. M. 

 Antipathes reticulata, Esper, i. 183. t. 11. 



Coral fan-shaped in one plaue, branches slender ; branchlets very 

 slender, subpinnate, irregularly disposed, often anastomosing, form- 

 ing a suborbicular frond. 



\iest Indies (Scrivener). 



9. Antipathes atlantica. B. M. 

 Coral shrub likę, branched, branches fan-like, irregularly pinnat e ; 



branchlets elongate, with distant subulate pinn.T, the larger one 

 sometimes pinnated, the branches and brancidets often anastonio- 

 sing. 



"\Vest Indies (Serii'ener). 



