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straight, spine-like, witli spiue-like brauches and branchlets on tlieir 

 sides ; the Iower branchlet sometimes tending toward one surface. 

 Cape Palmas {Hooker). 



15. Antipathes hirta. B. M. 

 Coral brancbed, branches divaricated ; branchlets from all sides 



of the stem, crowded and generally bent up toward one surface, elon- 

 gate, nearly of a uniform length, simple, with afew fiUform, gene- 

 rally short branches on their base. 

 West Indies (Scrivener). 



16. Antipathes subpinnata. B. M. 

 Antipathes subpinnata, Soland. Z. 101. t. 19. f. 9, 10. 



Coral erect, irregularly brancbed, branches diverging ; branchlets 

 close together in three (rarely two or four) longitudinal series on 

 the different sides of the stem, elongate, slender, ascending, simple, 

 and of nearly equal length. 



Madeira {TVollaston). 



Solander's figure but imperfectly represents this speeies, if it is 

 inteuded for it. I had originally described it as distinct under the 

 name of A. TFollastonii. 



The following speeies have been described, which I have not 

 seen : — 



1. Antipathes pectinata. 

 Antipathes pectinat a, Lamk. ii. 480. no. 6. 



2. Antipathes pinnacea. 

 Antipathes pinnacea. Palias, iii. 269. 



3. Antipathes scoparia. 



Antipathes scoparia, Esper, t. 14 ; Lamk. 480. no. 7. 



4. Antipathes fceniculacea. 



Antipathes foeniculacea, Palias, Z. 207 ; Rumph. Amb. vi. 208. 

 t. 80. f. 3, not Esper. 



Antipathes f cenicidutn, Lamk. 482. uo. 12. 



.'). Antipathes corticula. 



Antipathes corticula, Lamk. ii. 480. no. 3. 



" The bark " appears to be a parasitic animal. 



6. Antipathes lacerata, 



Antipathes lacerata, Lamk. ii. 480. no. 4. 

 A. lacera, Lamx. Pol. Flex. 277. 



7. Antipathes pyramidata. 

 Antipathes pyramidata, Lamk. ii. 480. no. o. 



