Verrill, Notes on Badlata. 391 



This beautiful species resembles in its reticulations L. media V., but 

 the meshes are usually larger and the coral has a more open and flex- 

 ible appearance. It also difiers, in all the specimens seen, in having 

 no distinct midribs or large branches. The spicula are quite distinct, 

 and resemble those of L. Florce much more closely. 



LeptOgOrgia Adamsii Verrill. (Litigorgia Adamsii, 1st Ed.). 



Rhipidogorgia Agassizii {pars) Verrill, BiiU. Mus. Comp. ZuoL, p. 32, 1864; Proc. Bost. 

 Soc. Natural History, x, p. 327, 1866. 



Rhipidogorgia ventalina Duch. and Mich., Supplement aux Mem. sur Coralliaries des 

 Antilles, 18G4, p. 20, Tab. iv, fig. 3, {non G. ventalina Linn., Pallas, Esper, etc., nee R. 

 ventalina Edw. and Haime). 



Gorgoiiia [Litigorgia) Adamsi YerrUl, Am. Jour. Sci., xlv, p. 415, May, 1868. 



Plate V, figure 5. Plate VI, figure 4. 



Corallum forming large, broad, rounded fans, with very small 

 reticxilations. Very young specimens, with fronds one to four inches 

 across, usually have a rounded outline, nearly as high as broad, often 

 very regular and almost circular, and in this stage have a few prin- 

 cijial branches, radiating from close to the base, scarcely compressed, 

 and traceable about half way across the frond, but often for not more 

 than a fourth of the breadth. The branchlets are all very slender and 

 uniform in size throughout, producing, by their fine, regular reticula- 

 tions, a very elegant eifect. The tei-minal branchlets are free and 

 usually project about a tenth of an inch. The reticulations are 

 mostly square or polygonal, sometimes rounded, and average •06 to 

 •10 of an inch across, and the branchlets are ordinarily about •03 in 

 diameter, but often less. 



Adult specimens have large, slightly compressed principal branches, 

 which arise from near the base, and diverging through the frond, throw 

 ofi" large secondary branches which spread often at nearly right 

 angles. Sometimes these coalesce, forming large, somewhat quad- 

 rangular areas, two or thi-ee inches across, and filled, like the rest of 

 the frond, with fine reticulations. Occasionally secondary fronds 

 arise from the sides and spread at right angles, other secondary fronds 

 occasionally appear, like nearly circular rosettes, attached only by the 

 centre to the side of the primary frond. 



The largest specimens are 20 to 22 inches high, and 20 to 25 broad ; 

 the large branches •S to -4 thick; the trunk at base 1 inch to 1-5. 



Color light purple, usually with the terminal branchlets light yel- 

 low, sometimes yellowish over the whole surface. In life, one speci- 

 men was " bright crimson, polyps deep orange," — F. H. B. 



Spicula light purple and yellow, sometimes the same spiculum has 



Trans. Connecticut Acad., Vol. I. 50 June, 1868. 



