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646 WORMS. ZOOPHYTA. 95. Gorgonia. 
Mollis. Coriaceous, dichotomous, with perpendicular tubular florets. 
Pallas el. Zooph, p 203. n. 130. xi 
Inhabits the Mediterranean; nearly 12 foot high: brown-violet, 
with long flender branches and brown ftem, 
Suceinzz. Round, amber-colour, dichotomous, rigid; the ftem covered 
with tubercular gaping florets. - 
Pallas el, Zooph. p. 200- n. 128. 2 
Ínhabits very rare, above half a foot high, with a tefta- 
ccous ftem. 
Americaza. Branched and fubdivided, the fubdivifions nearly oppofite 
depreffed with rows of fuckers on each margin: flefh 
ellowifh, pale purple within: bone horny. 
Soland. and Ellis Corall. p. 87- n. 11. tab. 14. fig. 4. 1 
pil the Jef Indies; purplifh or yellowifh; refembles G, 
'etofa. 
Exferta. Round, with a few alternate branches: florets alternate, 
8-valved: flefh covered with minute white fcales: 
bone brownifh, horny. 
Solander and Ellis Corall. p87. m. 12. tab. 15. fig. 1,2. 
Inhabits the We? Indies; about 2 feet high: dranches long, flen- 
der, white: po/ypes with 8 tentacula, and exferted. 
Patula. Compreffed, with flexuous fubpinnate branches, crimfon ; 
with 2 rows of flarets each fide, each furrounded with 
a whitifh ring: bone brownifh, horny. 
Sclander and Ellis Corall. p. 88. n. 13. tab. 15. fig. 3, 4. 
Inhabits the Mediterranean. 
Coratophyta Branched, with divaricate ere& fubdivifions each marked 
with 2 furrows: florets white, in irregular rows: 
flefh purple: bone black, horny. 
Solander and Ellis Corall. p, 81. n. 4. tab. 12. fig. 2, 5, 
Pluk, Amal. p. 102. t: 454 f. 13..— Boce, Muf. tab. p. 8. 
Pet. Gaz. tab. 31. f. 8, Muf. Gottw.t. 46. f, 1e 
Marf. Hift. Mar. p. 99. tab. 19. n. 85. 
Catefby Carol. 2. tab. 13. lurgot Mem. t. 23. B. 
Seba Muf. 3, tab. 107. n. 3. Knorr Delic. t: A. v. n. 2. 
Inhabits the Mediterranean, Atlamsic and South American feas; 
about a foot high: /fz/P bright purple. 
With a very fimple round ftem tapering both ways: bone 
dufky, horny: flefh orange-colour with 2 furrows; 
florets longith. 
Solander and Eis Corall, p. 81. m. 3- 
‘Juncea. 
Seba 
