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and conform to the definition of Chrysogorgiii in the disposition 

 of the spicules. 



A beautiful Acanlhogorgla, apparently complete, but onl}' 

 two inches high, is svmmetricalh' flabellate and very profusely 

 branching, with lengthened columnar calicles and bristling 

 with thorny spicules, two layers of which protect the included 

 polyp, the inner layer closing over the distal end and forming 

 a complete operculum. Two species of Parainuricca. both 

 brown in color, flabellate in form, and very profusely branch- 

 insf. differ in size and in the arrangement of the verruciform 

 calicles. one being characterized b}' distinctly separated cali- 

 cles. and the other by having the branches covered with a 

 dense mass of crowded calicles with their bristling spicules. 

 A bright crimson species probably belongs to this genus, and 

 bears a striking superficial resemblance to the beautiful colored 

 plates of Siphonogorgi'a in \h.Q ••Challenger" Report. Under 

 the lens this species is exquisitely beautiful, with its coating of 

 large crimson spicules. 



These extremelv hispid species get so involved in the tine 

 hempen strands of the tangles, that a great deal of patience is 

 required to separate them from their unnatural environment, 

 and it is almost impossible to pick off all the threads that wind 

 in and out among the myriad thorny points of the spicules. 



The familv GoRciOXELLiD.^ is represented by a slender w hip- 

 like ScirpeareUa, with irregular rows of verruciform calicles 

 arrani^ed on two sides of the unbranched colony. The general 

 surface is smooth, and the color orange in some specimens and 

 light yellow in others. 



Among the most interesting of all was a representative of the 

 family Cornularid.e. which gives an idea of the stock from 

 w'hich the primitive Tubularid.-e. or organ-pipe coral, and also 

 the original Gorgonid.^, may have sprung These speci- 

 mens, which are fragmentary, appear to belong to the genus 

 Tclcito. although I am not aw^are that representatives of this 

 genus have heretofore been reported from the Atlantic. It is 

 characterized by having a long axial polyp-tube, in our speci- 

 mens, about four inches long. A cross section of this polyp- 



