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ALCYOXACEA. 



Family Alcyonidoi. 

 Alcyonium rubiforme (Ehrenberg). 



Lohidaria ruhiforDU, Ehrenberg (1834). 

 Alcyonium rubiforme, Dana (1846). 



Dred:^ed by the writer off Grande Greve, Gaspe Bay, in 1867 ; at many 

 localities in the Gulf of St. Lawrence north of the Baie des Chaleurs in 1871, 

 1872 and 1873 ; and on the Orphan Bank, where it was very abundant, in 

 1873. 



Alcyonium carneum, L. Agassiz. 



Halcyonium carneum, L. Agassiz (1850). 

 Alcyonium digitatum, Stimpson (1853) ; non L. 



Grand Manan, "found attached to small pebbles on shelly bottoms in 10 

 -39 fathoms. All the specimens obtained were very small, the largest 

 scarcely an inch in length, and not divided into lobes " (Stimpson). " In 

 Chedabucto Bay, on the southern side of Breton Island, we" (i. e. Messrs. 

 Hyatt, Shaler and Verrill) "dredged an abundance of Alcyonium carneum, 

 Ag. (in 1861) in 10 fathoms rocky bottom, associated with a variety of 

 hydroids. This is the most northern locality yet known for the species, its 

 range being southward to Cape Cod " (Verrill, in Canadian Naturalist and 

 Geologist for December, 1863, vol. viii., p. 421). Bay of Fundy and coast 

 of Nova Scotia, low-water to 80 fathoms (Verrill, 1873). Very fine and fre- 

 quent between Cape Breton and Prince Edward islands, where it was 

 dredged at several localities by the writer in 1873. 



Alcyonium multiflorum, Verrill. 

 1879. Proc. U. S. Xat. Mus., vol. ii., p. 200. 



Off Nova Scotia, in 131-239 fathoms, SS. Albatross, of the U. S. Fish 

 Commission, 1883 (Verrill). 



Anthomastus grandiflorus, Verrill. 



1878. Amer. .Tourn. Sc. and Arts, Third Series, vol. xvi.. p. 376. 



Off Sable Island, N.S., in about 250 fathoms, schooner Marion, two speci- 

 mens " ( \"errill, 1878). " The Gloucester fishermen first collected this species 

 on the deep-water fishing banks off Nova Scotia, in 1877 and}1878." Since 

 that time fehey have brought in numerous specimens and presented them to 

 the U. S. Fish Commission. " These have come from Georges Bank, Le 

 Have Bank, Banquereau, Sable Island Bank, Grand Bank, etc., in 150 to 

 300 fathoms " (Verrill, 1883). 



