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tentacula : they are very sluggish, and did not expand." 

 (E. Forbes.} 



3. GORGONIA PLACOMUS, Warted Sea-fan, Ellis. 

 Hab. Coast of Cornwall, Ellis. 



"This Sea-fan is of a reddish-brown colour; has its 

 branches disposed in a dichotomous order and a flattish 

 form ; they bend irregularly towards one another, but 

 rarely unite. Their mouths are conical, projecting, and 

 surrounded at top by little spines. The bone or support is 

 nearly of the substance of wood." (Ellis.} 



Mr. Couch remarks, that Ellis must have been very for- 

 tunate in finding this Gorgonia, as neither Mr. Peach nor 

 he had been able to fall in with one among all the Gorgonia 

 that they examined. 



4. GORGONIA ANCEPS, Sea-willow, Mr. Dale. 



Hab. Deep water, very rare. Near Margate, Mr. Dale ; 

 on the coast of Great Britain and Ireland, Ellis. 



Dichotomous, the stem and branches a little compressed. 

 " On both edges of the flat branches are regular rows of 

 little rising cells in the calcareous part, with small holes for 

 an entrance to each." (Ellis.} 



" The bone is roundish and small at the ends, of a horny 

 nature, inclining to leather. Specimens recent from the sea 



