TRIBE IV. ANTIPATHACEA. 



East Indies (?). Lamarck. 



Antijiat/iesfceniculucea (?), Pallas, Zooph., A. fceniculum, Lamour., Pol. flex., 379 ; 



207. Encyc., 71 ; states that it grows to a 



Rumph. Amboyn., vi. 208, tab. 80, fig. 3. height of seven or eight inches. 



A.fceniculum, Lamk., ii. 482, No. 12. , Blainville, Man., 511. 



17. ANTIPATHES CORTICATA. (Lamarck.) 



A. caule parce ramosa, 15" alta, corticata, spinis numerosis echinata ; 

 corticis poris nullis. 



Stern sparingly ramose, 15 inches in height, corticate, echinate, with 

 numerous spines; cortex without pores. 



Indian Ocean. 



The cortex is merely a thin animal coating, and its existence is not 

 an essential characteristic. 



Antipathes corticata, Lamk., ii. 480, No. 3. , Lamour., Pol. flex., 374 ; Encyc. 69. 



18. ANTIPATHES LACERATA. (Lamarck.) 



A. caule ramosa, fere 2' alta, ramusculis spiniformibus echinata ; ramis 

 sarmentosis, tortuosis, sensim attenuatis ; ramulis lateralibus, tenui- 

 bus, sublaceris. 



Stem ramose, nearly 2 feet high, echinate with spiriiform branchlets ; 

 branches sarmentose, tortuous, gradually attenuate; branchlets 

 lateral, very numerous, slender, sublacerate. 



Indian Ocean (?). Lamarck. 



Antipathes lacerala, Lamarck, ii. 430, Encycl., 70. " Ses branches s'entortil- 

 No. 4. lent les unes avec les autres comme pour 



Ant. lacera, Lamouroux, Pol. flex., 377 ; se soutenir." 



19. ANTIPATHES PYRAMID ATA. (Lamarck.) 

 A. caule rigida, indivisa ; ramulis lateralibus, creberrimis, quaquaverstm 



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