124 Dr. J. E. Gray on the Fleshy Alcyonoid Corals, 



* Coral Jiesliy. 



1. Alcyomum ])ahnatum^ Pallas. {A. exos, Gmelin, Esper, t. 2 j 



Ellis, Phil. Trans. 1763, t. 20. f. 9. Lohulavia jialmata^ 

 Lamk. L. digUata^ Chiaje.) 

 Hah. Mediterranean. B.M. 



2. Alcyonmm Sarsii. {A.jMlmatunij var., Sars, Kolliker, Icon. 



Hist. 132.) 

 Ilab. North Sea. 



3. Alcyonmm auratitmm, Qiioy & Gaim. Voy. Astrol. t. 22. 



f. 16-18. [Lohidaria aurantiacaj Lamk.) 

 Hab. NeAV Zealand. B.M. 



** Coi'cd crustaceoiis. 



4. Alcyonium steUatum, M.-Edw. Ann. Sc. Nat. iv. 1835, 1. 16 ; 



Corall. i. 116, t. 1 a. f. 2. 

 Hah. Coast of France. 



2. Danella. 



Coral soft ; stem thick, barren, not dilated at the base ; 

 branches slender, cylindrical, ascending. Polypes small, on the 

 branches j sj^icules very abundant in all parts of the stem. 



* Coral coriaceous, hranclies Hunt, 



1. Danella conferta. [Alcyonium confertum^ Dana, Zooph. 



t. 57. f. 7.) 

 Hab. Feejee Islands. 



** Coral soft, branches acute, 



2. Danella flexihilis. [Alcyonium fiexibile^ Q^oy & Gaim.) 

 Hab, Vanikoro. 



3. Danella fegeensis, [Alcyonium fiexibile^ var.j Dana, Zooph. 



t. 57. f. 6.) 

 Hab. Feejee Islands (Dana). 



3. Amocella. 



Coral fleshy, smooth, arising- from a more or less extended, 

 compressed, horizontal base, with thick, erect, smooth, sterile 

 stems divided above into lobes or branches, covered on all 

 sides with retractile polypes. 



1. Amocella paucvflora, Savigny, Egypte, t. 1. f. 8. [Lobular ia 

 jpauclflora^ Ehrenb. Ammothoa viresccus, part., Audouin. 

 Alcyonium jyaucifiora^ Dana.) 

 Hab, Red Sea. 



