SUBORDER ALCYONARIA. 663 



boyn., vi. 223, has the habit of the virgulata, but is from the East Indies, and may be- 

 long to this species. Seba's No. 3, tab. 107, represents an allied Gorgonia, received by 

 him from the Cape of Good Hope ; he says, " Cujus ramuli prcclongi, tenues, parnmque 

 divisi, crusta rubra obtecti simt." " Crusta tartarea prtecipue circa summitates tubercu- 

 lis minutisque veluti porulis conspicua est." 



43. GORGONIA SANGUINEA. (Lamarck.} Purple; ramose, subfas- 

 tigiate ; branches erect, tereto-setaceous, polyps of the branchlets sub- 

 seriate, of the branches every where scattered ; axis nearly black. 



Isle of France. 



Gorgonia sanguinea, Lamk., ii. 495, No. , Lamour., Pol. flex., 400; Encyc., 441. 



22. , Ehrenb., G. Ixxxiv., sp. 6. 



44. GORGONTA GRAMINEA. (Lamarck.) Whitish; ramose, branches 

 erect, subfasciculate, slender, terete, rush-like; pores oblong, scattered. 



Mediterranean Sea. Lamarck. 



Gorgonia graminea, Lamk., ii. 496, No. 23. 



45. GORGONIA BERTOLONII. (Lamouroux.) Whitish; near the 

 virgulata in habit, branches closely collected together, long and often 

 nodding, rather stouter (one and a half lines), terete, and every where 

 subverrucose. 



Mediterranean Sea. 



Lithophyte premier, Marsilli, Phys. de la Go/'gonia Bertolonii, Lamour., Pol. flex., 



Mer, tab. 16, fig: 80; specimens obtained 414; Encyc., 445. 



in eight to thirty fathoms, near Marseilles. Gorgonia stricta, Bertolonii, Amsen. Ital., 



Colour ash, becoming white on drying. 260. 



Gorgonia viminalis, Esper, ii., tab. 11, A. Eunicea Berlolonii, Ehrenb., G. Ixxxii., 



Gorgonia graminea, var. subtuberculosa, sp. 5. 



Lamarck, ii. 496, No. 23. 



46. GORGONIA SASAI>PO. (Pallas.} Red; sparingly ramose; 

 branches terete, long virgate, often five inches long and nodding, 

 close dichotomous, one and a half lines thick, surface every where 

 subpilose and very slightly verrucose, polyps crowded, throughout 

 scattered. 



Indian Ocean. Pallas. Esper. 



(itifufiiiia sasappo, Pallas, Zooph., 188; Gorgonia sasappo, Esper, ii. 46, tab. 9. 



Susappo is the Malayan name of this , Lamk., 2d ed., ii. 500, No. 35 d. 



Gorgonia. 



47. GORGONIA HUMILIS. (Dana.) Whitish; two to three inches 

 high, and short fruticulose, with the branches crowded, flexible, 



