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Additional Species of Gorgonacea. 



Gorgonia citrina Esper., 1794. 



Gorgonia citrina Esper, Die Pflanzenth., ii, p. 129, pi. xxxviii, figs. 1, 2, 1794. 



Gorgonia (Pterogorgia) citrina Dana, Zooph., 1846. 



Xiphigorgia citrina Verrill, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., i. p. 33, 1864. 



Several specimens of this small, flat-branched species were obtained 

 by our party in 1898. Both varieties, yellow and purple, occur but 

 most examples are tinged with both these colors. 



Gorgonia setosa Linn. Purple sea-plume. 



A single perfect specimen of this fine species is in our collection. 

 Others, of large size, but imperfect, were seen in local collections. 

 It may be only a variety of G. acerosa Pallas. 



Muricea muricata (Pallas) Verrill. 



Gorgonia muricata Pallas, Elench. Zooph., p. 198, 1766. Ellis and Sol., 1780. 

 Muricea spicifera Lamx., Exp. Method., pi. 71, figs. 1, 2, 1821. 

 Muricea muricata Verrill, Amer. Joura. Sci., xlv, p. 411, 1868. 



Numerous tine specimens of this species were obtained, in 1 898, 

 by the Yale party, on a small reef in Bailey Bay, a few feet below 

 low-tide, by diving. It completely covered one 

 small reef. It was also found on the reefs in 

 Castle Harbor, but only sparingly. In life, its 

 color is yellowish brown to ochre-yellow, with 

 beautiful translucent, white or buff, elongated 

 polyps, which become so exsert in expansion 

 that they entirely conceal the coral, their 

 length equal to the diameter of the branches. 

 When dried the color is pale buff or ochre, 

 sometimes tinged with rust-brown. The lower 

 lip of the calicles projects strongly and the 

 whole surface is very spiculose, some of the 

 superficial spicules being very large and irregu- 

 larlj^ fusiform. 



Figure 1. — Muricea 

 muricata. x 5 



Eunicea ramulosa Ehr., 1834. 



Gorgonia spicifera Dana, Zooph., 1846. 



A few specimens of this were seen in local collections, but none 

 were taken by our party. The branches are slender and arise 

 laterally or pinnately from the main stems. 



