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37. GORGONIA VERRUCOSA. Whitish, flabellate, about six inches 

 high and broad, loosely and sparingly ramose ; branches flexuous, one 

 to one and a quarter lines thick, rarely coalescing, verrucose, verrucse 

 one-half to two-thirds of a line broad. 



Mediterranean, and seas of America. 



Giirgonia verfticosa, Linn., ed. xii., 1291. rather few, and branchlets full one and a 



, Kills and .Snlander, 89. half lines broad. Another species? 



, Laink., ii. 491, No. 12. The Gorgoniaverrucosaof the British coast 



, Blainv., Man., 505, pi. 87, fig. 3. (Johnston's Brit. Zooph., 182, pi. 25, fig. 



, Esper, Pfianz., ii. 61, tab. 16. 1), is represented by Johnston as twelve 



, Bertolonii, Amain. Ital. 260 ; " albis- inches high, by fifteen or sixteen broad, 



simo, undique exquisite et inoequaliter and branched in a plane, with a midrib, 



verrucoso ;" refers to Marsilli, tab. 21, and the branchlets often coalescing ; axis 



fig. 97. black, with a snow-white pith at centre. 



Eunicea verrucosa, Ehrenb., G. Ixxxii., sp. Gorgonia viminalis, Sowerby, Brit. Misc., 



4 ; Espor's figure is referred to as good. 81, pi. 40 ; Fleming's Brit. Anim., 512 ; 



Seba, fig. 3, tab. 106, which Lamarck refers Borlase, Cornwall, 238, tab. 24, fig. 1 ; 



here, represents a large verrucose species, it has more of the habit of the flexuosa, 



fourteen inches high by eleven broad, ar- but is more closely reticulate, 

 borescently branched in a plane ; branches 



38. GORGONIA APICULATA. (Ehrenb.} Dana. Ash-coloured ; flabel- 

 late, three inches high and five broad ; very densely ramulous, 

 branches and branchlets nearly parallel, sometimes coalescing, often 

 free, one-half a line broad ; verrucaB conically acute, one-fourth to 

 one-third of a line high, and broad, crowded. 



Eunicea apiculata, Ehrenberg, G. Ixxxii., sp. 8. 



39. GORGONIA NIVEA. (Ehrenberg.) Dana. Snow-white; flabellate, 

 six inches, branchlets flexuous, opposite or alternate, subcompressed, 

 one line thick at apex, with the verrucse scattered, rather large, a line 

 broad, and half a line high. 



Eunicea nivea, Ehrenb., op. cit., Gen., Ixxxii., sp. 14. 



NOTE. The G. humosa of Esper (tab. 6) is arborescently branched in a plane; 

 branches not crowded, terete or subcompressed, one and a half to throe lines in diameter, 

 surface verrucose. It may be the G. placomits, yet as figured and described, has not the 

 spicules of that species. Probably from the West Indies. 



The Eunicea antipathes of Ehrenberg, is a flabellate species, described as follows : 

 " Pedalis nigricans, dichotoma, ramosa, flnbellata, valida, flexuosa, reticulata, caulibus a 

 latere compressis, ramis subteretibus, poly pis magnis, undique sparsis, contractis 1'" fere 

 longis, "' fete latis, complanatis. Esperi Icon (tab. 28) hujus formam bene refert. An 

 hue Esper, tab. 6 ?" 



The Gorgonia palma of Esper, tab. 40, may be \\tcjlammea; but the form is simple 



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