SUBORDER ALCYONARIA. (359 



31. GORGONIA STRICTA. (Lamarck.) Red, flahellate, subreticulate, 

 branches crowded and close, lateral branchlets short, and rather 

 spreading; polypiferous granules minute, much crowded; cortex 

 thin. 



1'iitin stricta, Lamarck, 2d ed., ii. 489, Gorgonia stricta, Lamouroux, Pol. flex., 

 No. 0. 408; Encyc., 443. 



32. GORGONIA RETE'LLUM. (Lamarck.} Whitish ; flabellate, subre- 

 ticulate; lateral branchlets short, subtransverse, granulous. 



Indian Ocean? Lamarck. 



Gorgonia retellum, Lamarck, 2d ed., ii. 489, No. 5. 



Gorgonia furfuracea ? Esper, Fortsetz., i., tab. 41. This figure, which Lamarck 

 refers here with a query, represents a closely-branched frond, a little broader than its 

 height, sparingly coalescent, without a prominent midrib, having the lateral branchlets 

 along the main branches subdivaricate, mostly free, scarcely three-fourths of an inch 

 long, and a line or a little more in diameter; the cortex is rather thick, the oscules 

 numerous, and the surface is somewhat granulous. 



Muriceafurfuracea, Ehrenberg, G. Ixxxi., sp. 6. 



33. GORGONIA TAMARIX. (Ehrenberg.) Isabella yellow ; a little 

 higher than broad ; much branched, slender, subflabellate ; branches 

 flexuous, thin, short, setaceous, subreticulate, but mostly free; margin 

 of the summit branchlets crenated, owing to slightly prominent 

 verrucse. 



Emdcea tamariz, Ehrenberg, G. Ixxxii,, sp. 13. 



34. GORGONIA TUBERCULATA. (Esper ?} Lamarck. Yellowish ; fla- 

 bellate, subreticulate, ramose, very large ; branchlets lax, tortuous, 

 often coalescing ; tubercles scattered, unequal. 



Mediterranean Sea. 



Milne Edwards describes a gigantic specimen of this species, of 

 which the trunk is as large as the arm ; the verrucaB are large and 

 depressed, and very unequal. 



Gorgonia tuberculata, Lamarck, ii. 491, , Latnour., Pol. (lex., 409; Encyc., 



No. 11. 443. 



, Esper, ii. 127, tab. 37 (?). " G. sub- , Blainville, Man., 505. 



reticulata, plana, ligno depresso fusco, The Eunicea arbuscida, of Ehrenberg, has 



corticc albido, poris sparsis inrcqualibus, many characters in common with the G. 



hcmisphcricis, et tuberculatis." Figure 2, tuberculata of Lamarck, but appears to 



represents u part of a branch enlarged, be a distinct species, with more slender 



and if of natural size, it would answer and even branchlets. " Tripedalis, ele- 



well for the tuberculata, of Lamarck. gantissima, isabellina, 2' lata, frutes- 



