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forked branches, with a row of polyps along their thin edges. It is 
usually bright or light yellow, with purple edges and calicles, but is 
not uncommonly all purple or entirely yellow. 
Figure 143.—Gorgonia citrina; a, portion of branch with polyps of one edge 
expanded, x about 5; 6, tentacles and disk, more enlarged. Drawn from 
life by the author. 
It occurs sparingly on the reefs. It was also found in Harrington 
Sound, where most other gorgonians do not occur. At Dominica it 
grows much larger, with numerous branches. 
Muricea muricata (Pallas) Blainv. Figs. 144, 145. Plate xxxiiis, fig. 2, a, 
(polyps expanded) ; plate xxxiiic, fig. 2, d; plate xxxvi, fig. 2 (7). 
Gorgonia muricata Pallas, Elenchus Zoéph., p. 198, 1766. Ellis and Sol., 
Zooph., p. 182, 1787. Esper (pars), Pflanz., ii, Gorg., pl. xxxix. 
Eunicea muricata Lamx., Polyp. Flex., p. 489, 1816. 
Muricea spicifera Lamx., Exposit. Method., p. 36, pl. 71, figs. 1, 2, 1821, 
(after Ellis and Sol. ?). Ehr., 1834, p. 134. 
Muricea muricata Blainville, Man. Actin., p. 509, pl. 88, fig. 1. 
Muricea spicifera Dana, Zooph., p. $73, 1846. Edw. and Haime, iii, p. 142, 
1857. Kélliker, Icones Histiol., ii, p. 135. 
Muricea muricata Verrill, Crit. Rem., No. 1, p. 411, 1868; these Trans., x, 
p. 569, fig. 1, 1900. Cook, op. cit., p. 98, 1904, from Bermuda (analysis). 
This is easily distinguished from all the other Bermuda gorgo- 
nians by the prominent calicles, covered externally with acute imbri- 
cated spicules, having projecting points easily visible to the naked 
eye. It forms rather closely branched, flattened clusters, seldom 
more than a foot high. Its color is pale straw-yellow to ocher- 
yellow, sometimes with a rusty or brownish yellow tint ; old dried 
specimens often fade to white. 
It occurs on the reefs in Castle Harbor, but we found it most 
abundant on the ledges in Bailey Bay, one of which it occupied to 
the almost complete exclusion of other species. It is also found on 
the outer reefs. 
Trans. Conn, AcaD., Vou. XII. 20 Marca, 1907 
