580 



ZOOPHYTES. 



Flabellum marinum planum (?), Rumph. 



Atnb., vi. 205, tab. 79. 

 Antipathes flabettum, Pallas, Zooph., iii., 



No. 136 : " Tenerrima scabritie his- 



pidum." 

 , Lamarck, No. 16 : " Grande et belle 



espece, tout-a-fait flabelliforme et reti- 



culee ;" Lamarck refers to Esper's Ant. 

 flabellum, tab. 1 , which is not scabrous, 

 and is probably a decorticated Gorgonia 

 (G. Esperi ?). 



Antipatlies flabellum, Lamouroux, Polyp, 

 flex., 382 ; Encyc., 73. 



10. ANTIPATHES ERICOIDES. 



A. Jlabellata, ramosissima, intertexta ; ramorum ramulorumque axe 

 filiformi, hispidulo; ramulis brevibus, setaceis. 



Flabellate, much branched, interwoven ; axis of branches and branch- 

 lets filiform, finely hispid ; branchlets short, and setaceous. 



Indian Ocean (?). Esper. Lamarck. 



and A. ericoides, ibid., tab. 6 ; the figure 

 has some resemblance, in the slender 

 axis, to that of thereticulala, but it is not 

 pinnate branched, and has fewer branch- 

 lets. 



Antipathes ericoides (?), Pallas, Zooph., 208. 



, Lamarck, 482, No. 13. 



, Lamouroux, Polyp, flex., 381 ; En- 

 cyc., 72. 

 Antipathes myriophylla, Esper, ii. 150, 



NOTE. The following flabellate species, judging from Esper's descriptions and figures, 

 to which Lamarck refers, may be decorticated Gorgonioe. 



A. RADIANS (Lamarck). Subflabellate, much branched, subspinous, branches divari- 

 cately radiating. Mediterranean. A. fceniculacea, Esper, ii. 152, tab. 7 ; A. radians, 

 Lamk., ii. 482, No. 14; Lamour., Pol. flex., 380, and Encyc., 72 ; Blainv., Man., 511. 



A. CLATHRATA. Flabellate, much and intricately branched, branchlets often coa- 

 lescing, and hence coarse reticulate, the smaller quite short and subsetaceous. Indian 

 Ocean (?). Antipathes clathrata (?), Pallas, Zooph., 212; A. clathrata, Esper, ii. 141, 

 tab. 2, according to whom the surface is smooth and shining ; Lamarck, ii. 483, No. 15 ; 

 Lamour., Polyp, flex., 382, and Encyc., 72. 



A. LIGULATA (Esper). Flabellate, much branched, coalescent and delicately reticu- 

 late; axis of the branches compressed ; of the branchlets ligulate, resembling somewhat 

 the axis of a Gorgonia flabellum; A. ligulata, Esper, ii. 149, tab. 5; probably a decorti- 

 cated Gorgonia flabellum or clathrus; Lamk., ii. 483, No. 17; Lamour., Polyp, flex., 

 381, and Encyc., 72. 



IV. Non jlabellatce, nee in piano ramosee. 



11. ANTIPATHES MIMOSELLA. (Lamarck.) 

 A. ramosissima, 2' alta, paniculata, expansa ; ramis patentibus, alter- 



