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jecting lamellae. It forms a clump eight or ten inches high, and a foot 

 or more across, crowdedly branched. The upper branchlets are seldom 

 over an inch long. Near the apex the calicles are very oblique. 

 The larger lamellae are cultriform, rounded at apex, and project over 

 the outer surface of the calicle. 



The hirtella, which it resembles, is coarser, and the calicles are twice 

 stouter. 



II. LameUis paululum ezsertis ei cequalifous. 



3. OCULINA PROLIFERA. (Pallas.} Lamarck. 



O. ramosa, subdichotoma, reticulato-coalescens ; polypis maximis, axiUa- 

 ribus vel terminalibus et scepe lateribus proliferis. Corallum caliculis 

 turbinatis, scepe 6'" crassis; lamellis paulum exsertis, subcequalibus, 

 revolutis. 



Ramose and subdichotomous, reticulato-coalescent ; polyps very large, 

 axillary or terminal, and their sides often proliferous. Corallum 

 with the calicles turbinate, often 6 lines thick ; lamellae a little exsert, 

 subequal and somewhat revolute. 



Norwegian Sea. Pallas. 



A very coalescent species with large turbinate calicles, growing to a 

 height of two feet or more. The species has some of the characters of 

 the Gary ophy Ilia anthophyllum. 



Corallium album, lapidosum, fyc., Seba, iii., inch in diameter, and one-half to one inch 



tab. 116, No. 3 ; the branches are every in length. 



where coalescent, and the calicles one-half , Esper, Pflanz. i. 104, tab. 11. Esper 



to two-thirds of an inch in diameter, with states that the calicles are very various in 



a length of one to two inches. size, and sometimes an inch in diameter. 



Madrcpora prolifera, Linn. Pall. Zooph., p. Oculina prolifera, Lamarck, 456, No. 5. 



307. , Blainville, Man. d'Act., 380. 



, Gmel. Syst. Nat., 3780. , Lamouroux, Exp. 64, pi. 32, fig. 2. 



, Ellis and Solander, tab. 32, fig. 2; Matrepora prolifera, Oken, Lehrbuch der 



in this figure, which is a simple branch, Zoologie, i. 71. 



the calicles are one-third to one-half an Lith. proliferum, Schweig. Handb., 416. 



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