302 A. EF. Verrill—The Bermuda Islands; Coral Reefs. 
The polyps, when expanded (fig. 145 and pl. xxxiiis, fig. 2, a) are 
very elegant; they are slender, whitish, and translucent ; they stand 
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Figure 144.—Muricea muricata, portion of a branch, x 4. 
Figure 145.—The same, with the polyps expanded, x3. Drawn by A. H. V. 
so close together that they nearly conceal the coral. The tentacles 
have about ten slender pinne on each side. 
Plexaura flexuosa Lamx. Figure 146; plate xxxiiis, fig. 2, b, c; plate 
xxxiiic, fig. 2, u, b,c. Platexxxvi, fig. 2 (6). Plate xxxvis, fig. 4, spicules. 
Plexaura flecwosa Lamx., Polyp. Flex., p. 424, 1816; Expos. Method., p. 54, 
pl. 70, fig. 1, 2, 1821. Edw. and H., iii, p. 154. Verrill, Bull. Mus. Comp. 
Zool., i, p. 34, 1864 ; these Trans., x, p. 568. Ké6lliker, Icones, p. 138. 
Gorgonia anguiculus Dana, Zoéph. Ex. Exped., p. 668, 1846. 
?Plexaura salicornoides Kdw. and Haime, Corall., iii, p. 155, pl. B®, 1857. 
Plexaura flecuosa Hargitt and Rogers, Bull. U. S. Fish Com., 1902, p. 284, 
pl. iv, figs. 18-16, spicules. . 
Figure 146.—Plexaura flecuosa; a, portion of a small branchlet, x about 2; 
b, part of same, more enlarged ; c, section of branchlet, more enlarged. 
Drawn by A. H. V. 
This is the most common of the stout-branched gorgonians on the 
Bermuda reefs. It forms upright, bushy colonies consisting of 
