Flamimea. 
| Umbracis- 
! ume. 
P urpurede 
Safappos 
Palma, 
Radicata. 
Suberofa, 
» 
WORMS. ZOOPHYTA. 95. Gorgonia. 647 
Seba Muf. 3. tab. YOg. m. t1. a. 
Inhabits the American Iflands, adhering to ftones: about 5 feet 
long, and very flexible when alive. 
Compreffed, branched and fubdivided: bone flat, horny: 
flefh fcarlet, covered with minute florets. 
Solander and Ellis Carall. p. 80. n. 2. tab. 116 
Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope: bright flame-colour. 
Fan fhaped, fubreticulate, with numerous round divergent 
branches: flefh reddifh, covered with florets. 
Solander and Ellis Corall. p. 80. n. 1. tab. 10. 
Inhabits the Zzdiaz Ocean: ftem fhort, rifing from a broad bafe, 
fending forth 2 or 5 thick branches, from which proceed many 
long flender {maller ones all tending to the ciicumference and 
united here and there by leffer fide ones, forming a kind of 
net-work, : 
Subdichotomous, with divaricate flender branches: flefh 
violet, covered with minute tubercles. 
Pallas el. Zooph. p. 187. n. 118. 
Inhabits South America: round, fmooth, blackifh, the ends of the 
branches yellow. 
Dichotomous, round, with divaricate flender branches : 
flefh red, with numerous hairy florets. 
Rumpf. Am), 0. p. 223- tab. 83. 
Inhabits the JzZzaz Ocean; a foot long: black, horny, and fre- 
queutly found with bernacles adhering to it. 
Flat, with numerous very long fimple divifions:  fleth 
{mooth, with fcattered fimple pores. 
Pallas el. Zooph. p. 189. 2. 120. 
Inhabits the Indian Ocean; 2-6 feet long: brown, horny, co- 
vered with a calcareous coat, and flexile. 
Very much branched, corky, with very minute fcattered 
pores, and many-cleft at the bafe. 
Seba Muf. 3 tab. 106. 2. 6. 
Inhabits Z/*ica» feas: fubdichotomous, grey, of the fubítancc 
and appearance of cork, with a branched trunk 2 inches high. 
Woody, very much branched, diffufe, the branches compref- 
fed & grooved, & covered with fubftellate fcattered pores, 
Ellis Cerall. p. 64. t. 26. fig. P, Q. Soland. & Ellis, p.95. n. 1g. 
Turgot Mem. Inflr. tab, 23. fg. C... 
Inhabits /ndia and Africa; near 3 feet high: feft red, fpongy : 
tone pale red, corky : branches long, round, erect. 
Coralleides, 
