650 ZOOPHYTES. 



Gorg. americana, Gmelin, 3799. sp. 3. " Bipedalis, et tripedalis, 9" lata, 



Gorgonia pinnata, in part, of Lamarck, flava, pinnata, stricta, valida, pinnis 6" 



Latnouroux,andBlainville(seethesetosa). longis, strictis, rarioribus, 1'" latis, com 



Pterogorgia stricta? Ehrenb., G. Ixxxv., planatis." 



8. G. PTEROGORGIA PETECHIZANS. (Pallas.) Dana. Yellow, with 

 the margin dotted with purple; one to two feet high; flabellate and 

 ramuloso-pinnate ; pinnules numerous, short (one to two inches), a 

 line broad, nearly parallel, compressed ; polyps scarcely prominent, 

 mostly marginal, but not generally in regular series. 



Atlantic and Coast of Africa. Lamarck. 



Gorg. petechizans, Pallas, Zooph., 196. Gorg. abietina, Ellis and Sol., 95, tab. 16. 



, Esper, ii. 55, tab. 13. Coast of Africa. 



, Lamk., ii. 491, No. 10. Gorg. sanguinoknta? Pallas, Zooph., 175. 



, Lamour., Pol. flex., 398; Exp. Meth., " G. depressa, ramosissima, dichotomo- 



33, pi. 16 ; Encyc., 440. pinnata, corticis flavi poris distichis pur- 



, Blainv., Man., 505. pureis." 



, Ehrenberg, G. Ixxxiv., sp. 9. 



9. G. PTEROGORGIA PATULA. (Ellis.) Dana. Deep red; eight 

 inches high ; ramose, subpinnate, tortuous ; branches compressed, 

 not crowded ; polyps subdistichous; axis fuscous. 



Mediterranean Sea. 



Gorgonia patula, 88, tab. 15, figs. 3, 4. Gorgonia patula, Lamour., Pol. flex., 399; 



The branches and branchlets are flat- Exp. Meth., 33, tab. 15, figs. 3, 4 : 



tened, not crowded, 11 5 lines wide, and Encyc., 440. 



3 lines below ; the polyps are not con- , Lamk., 2d ed., ii, 499, No. 35 a. 



fined to the margin. 



II. Branchlets terete, or but slightly compressed. 

 A. Pinnate or ramose in a plane. 



10. G. PTEROGORGIA SETOSA. (Linn.) Purple; very large, often 

 five feet high ; ramose and very densely ramulous ; pinnules nearly 

 opposite or somewhat scattered, subterete, very long filiform (two to 

 six inches in length), and hardly one line thick, longitudinally faint 

 sulcate along the middle, becoming pendulous when adult, not verru- 

 cose ; polyps subseriate, the opposite series often double ; axis black. 



Figure 32, page 72, extremity of a branch. 



West Indies, where it is common. Var. sericea, West Indies. 

 Bost. Nat. Hist. Soc. 



This is the large purple pendulous species of the West Indies. 

 When young, the branchlets are erect or nearly so, and the pinnate 



