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When living, and with the polyps fully expanded, it is a beautiful 
object, for its colors are often brilliant and remarkably variegated. 
Figure 76.—Mussa fragilis Dana. Common Rose Coral. Original type of Dana, 
nat. size. Phot. by A. H. Verrill. 
One of the most common shallow water varieties had the disk | 
translucent lavender-gray, tinged in places with emerald-green, and 
flecked with unequal flake-white specks, most of which are in radial 
lines. Tentacles are often swollen at base and obtuse at tips, usually 
Figure 77.—Mussa fragilis in the simple young or Lithophyllia-stage. x14. 
Phot. A. H. V. 
translucent gray, with a large patch of flake-white on the outer 
base, sometimes running up on the outer side, and sometimes another 
on the inner base; or the whole surface may be flecked with white; 
Trans. Conn. Acap., Vou. XII, 15 Marca, 1906. 
