Verrill, Xotes on MuiJidta. 42 ;3 



•42o l)y -100, -400 by -125, -375 Ly 'lOO, and -425 l)y '062 ; the spinules 

 of the hu-ger spindles are ahovit •o2o long. 



Panama, very rare, — F. H. ]:iradley. 



The spiciila of this species resemble most those of 3f. tiihigera, but 

 Avliile the liranches are nuxch smaller, the spicula are absolutely nuu-h 

 larger. They are also rougher, with larger spinules, and the small 

 spicula are much less abundant and more regular in fonn. Its thin 

 caMienchyma, and long, clavate, tubular cells, "vvith slender projecting 

 spicula, will at once separate it from all other sj^ecies, except, perhaps, 

 31. horrida Mob. 



Muricea horrida Mobius. 



Neue Gorgoniden des Naturhist. Mus. Hamburg, p. 11, Tab. Ill, fig. 3-8, 1861; 

 Kdlliker, Icones Histiolog., p. 1 35, 1865. 



" M. arborescens, ramosissima, ramis teretibus, veiTUcis polyi)iferis 

 cylindratis, obtusis. Coenenchyma s]»iculis fusiformibus, verrucosis, 

 fulvis suftultum." 



This species, as described and figured by Mobius, foi-ms an openly 

 and loosely branched corallum, with slender divergent branches, cov- 

 ered with loosely arranged, tubular, and somewhat clavate verruca?, 

 which are obtuse or truncate and eight-rayed at summit, the sides and 

 upjjer margin with a few slightly projecting points of long and large 

 spicula. The coenenchyma is thin and the verruca* are about equal in 

 length to the diameter of the branchlets and smaller branches. The 

 long spindles are stout fusiform, with distantly an-anged, rough, une- 

 qual warts. The two figured would measure 1-45""" by -30""", and 

 1-07 by -23. 



Peru (Hamburg Museum). 



Muricea squarrosa Ven-iii, sp. nov. 



Plate VI, figure 13. Plate VIII, figure 4. 



Coralhim dichotomous, the branches subdividing two or three times, 

 branching nearly in a plane. The trunk usually divides close to the 

 base into two or more main branches, each of which usually forks 

 again within half an inch. Some of the central secondary branches 

 rise nearly perpendicularly and do not subdivide for one or two inches, 

 or even more, but the outer ones often fork two or three times more, 

 at distances of about half an inch. The terminal branches and branch- 

 lets are from one to four inches long, round, subparallel in large speci- 

 mens, tapering but little, usually obtuse at the ends, and nearly as 

 large as the main branches. The branches usually spread at a large 



Traxs. CoNXECTicuT Acad., Vol.1. 54 January, 1869. 



