584 ZOOPHYTES. 



spar sis, in pyramidam dispositis, dichotomis ; axe nitidulo, olivaceo- 

 lutescente. 



Stem rigid and undivided ; branchlets lateral, much crowded, scat- 

 tered, and pointing every way, forming together a pyramid, dicho- 

 tomous ; axis a little shining, yellowish-olive. 



East Indies (?). Lamarck. 



A. pyramidata, Lamarck, ii. 480, No. 5. , Lamour., Pol. flex., 375; Encyc., 69. 



20. ANTIPATHES Boscn.. (Lamouroux.} 



A. flexuosa, ramosa, ramulis numerosis divaricatis ; ramulorum axe 

 setaceo. 



Flexuous, ramose, branches numerous and divaricate ; axis at sum- 

 mits setaceous. 



Shores of Carolina. Bosc. 



Antipathes Boscii, Lamour., Pol. flex., 375, pi. 14, fig. 5; Encyc., 69. Grows to a 

 height of four inches, and its scattered branches have numerous very divergent branchlets. 

 , Lamarck, 2d ed., ii. 484. 



21. ANTIPATHES ALOPECUROIDES. (Ellis.} 



A. ramosa; ramis arete paniculatis ; ramorum axe hispido; ramulorum 

 setaceo, fragili. 



Ramose, branches close paniculate ; axis hispid, .setaceous, brittle. 

 Shores of South Carolina. Ellis. Lamouroux. 



Antipathes alopecuroides,E\\\s,Zooph.,W2. rameaux assex nombreux, en forme de 



, Lamour., Pol. flex., 375; Encyc., 69. panicule serrce, presque semblable & la 



" Elles se divisent, et se sous-divisent en queue de renard." 



22. ANTIPATHES ARBOREA. (Dana.} 

 A. arborescens, laxe ramosa, patens, maxima (3' alta}; ramis sub- 



