WORMS. ZOOPHYTA. 95. Gorgonia. 645 
95. GORGONIA. Animal growing in the 
form of a plant: /lem coriaceous, corky, 
woody, horny, or bony, compofed of 
glaffy fibres, or like ftone, ftriate, taper- 
ing, dilated at the bafe, covered with a 
vatcular or cellular flefh or bark, and 
becoming fpongy and friable when dry: 
mouths or Pins covering the furface of 
the ftem and polype-bearing. 
depadifera Dichotomous, with crowded imbricate reflected companu- 
late mouths or florets. 
Solander and Ellis Corall. p. 84. 2.8, tab. Y3. fig. 1,2. 
Pontopp. Norw. 1. 5. 252. tab.13. fig, M1. 
Gunner. A&. Nidros. 2. p. 321. tab. 9. 
Cluf. Exot. 122. tab. 123.  Beff. Muf. tab. 24. 
Baber op. fubf. 2. p. 130. tab. 13. fig. 1. 
Inhabits the Norway Seas; near 2 feethigh: fesh pale, covered 
with minute whitifh fcales: florets covered with white imbricate 
Ícales, and have the appearance of {mall Bernacles: fem white 
with a ftony baíe and cartilaginous branches, 
Vertiallae Pinnate, branched, with alternate parallel fubdivifions 
pose covered with verticillate incurved Horets. 
Ellis Corall, p. 60. tab. 26. fig. , T, V. 
Soland. and Ellis Corall. 5. 83. n.7. 
Mar}. Hifl. Mar. p. vor. tab. 20. fig 94—96. 
Inhabits the Mediterranean and Norih Seas: 2—3 feet high: 
Stem very brittle, white or yellowith, compofed of layers of a 
fhining pearly fhelly fubftance: /fefh covered with white glaffy 
{cales: branches flexile. 
* Placonus. Branching both ways, with flexuous. rarely anaftomofing 
branches covered with conic florets. 
Ellis Coral. p. 67. tab. 27. fig a A. AX. A2. A 3. 
Solander and Ellis Corall. p. 86. n. vo. 
Gunner AG. Nidros. 3. pt. tab. Y. 
Breyn. prodr. 3. tab. 29. | Borl. Cormw. p. 238. tab. f. 1. 
Marf. Hift. Mar. p.93. tab. 17. p. 157. tab. 35, f 171. 
Pontopp. Hifl. Norau. 1. b. 273. tab. VY. 2. 2, 3. 
Inhabits European and Indian (cas: 2 feet high. 
Stem erect, woody, yellow, {carlet, reddifh or cinereous : branches 
flatifh, bending irregularly towards each other and rarely 
uniting: florets furreunded at the top with {mall fpines. 
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