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ZOOPHYTES. 



flabcllate, the branches are digitntcly arranged, scarcely subdivided, and three to six 

 inches long ; they are much compressed and two to four lines wide ; colour white, oscules 

 scattered and numerous. 



III. FlaJjellate, subpinnate. 



40. GORGONIA FLAMMEA. (Ellis.} Scarlet or purple; very large; 

 arborescently flabellate, lax ramose, subpinnate, branches compressed, 

 branchlets one and a half to two lines broad, not verrucose, polyps 

 scattered. 



Cape of Good Hope. 



G. flammea, Ellis and Sol., 80, tab. 11. 



, Lamk., ii. 490, No. . 



, Lamour., Exp. Meth, 33, tab. 11 ; 



Pol. flex., 399 ; Encycl., 440. 



Gorgonia pa/ma, Ehrenberg, G. Ixxxiv., 



sp. 4. 

 , Esper, Pflanz., ii., tab. 5. 



IV. Not flabellate ; cortex thin; verruca. 9to?ie, or nearly obsolete. 



41. GORGONIA VIRGULATA. (Lamarck.} Bright yellow, orange, or 

 crimson; sparingly ramose and often nodding; branches long, (often 

 a foot or more long,) even virgate, one to one and a half lines thick, 

 often obsoletely compressed ; polyps crowded, sometimes subseriate, 

 verrucse none, oscules minute and linear. 



West Indies. 



The branches are long and very slender without verruca?, and pass- 

 ing off at a small angle they appear rather crowded together ; they 

 are often a foot or more in length, and become somewhat nodding 

 when thus long. 



cit., G. Ixxxiii., sp. 1), appear to have 

 been described from specimens of La- 

 marck's virgulata. The viminaMs, of 

 Pallas, is described as ramoso-subpinnate, 

 with divaricate, setaceous, branches, and 

 distichous, somewhat prominent, oscules. 



Corallina fruticosa, &c., Catesby's Caro- 

 lina, 13, pi. 13, red variety. 



Gorgonia viminalis, Esper, Pflanz., ii. 51, 

 tab. 1 1 v the yellow variety. The branches 

 as represented are too short. 



Gorgonia virgulata, Lamk., ii. 495, No. 

 21. 



The Gorgonia viminalis, of Lamouroux 

 (Exp. Meth., 34, and Encyc., 445), and 

 Plexaura viminalis, of Ehrenberg (op. 



The Mediterranean is given by him as 



its locality. Esper's cerataphyta, tab. 



19, answers nearly to the description. 



See also Pterogorgia rosea. 

 NOTE. 42. Gorgonia miniacea (Esper). This species is thus described by Ehrenberg, 

 who names it Plexaura miniacea. " Sesquipedalis, miniacea, subflabellaio-divisa, ramis 

 virgatis, parce dichotomis, nutantibus, leviter compressis, dense polypifcris, pedem fere 

 longis." At base, three lines thick ; summits a line. Op. cit., G. Ixxxiii., sp. '2. Esper's 

 specimen was from the East Indies. He describes it as subsecund in its branches, and 

 ramose nearly in a plane. Pflanz., ii., tab. 36. The figure by Rumphius, tab. 83, Am- 



