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ZOOPHYTES. 



branchlets short (one to six lines), one and one-third lines thick, not 

 attenuate, surface verrnculose, polyps crowdedly scattered. 



West Indies? 



Forms a small crowded clump, with the branches somewhat droop- 

 ing, and the branchlets very short and uneven or short verrucose. 



Eunicea tuberculata, Ehrenberg, Gen. Ixxxii., sp. 15. 



48. GORGONIA FURCATA. (Lamarck.) White; low, lax ramose, 

 dichotomous; branches terete, slender, variously curved, obsoletely 

 verrucose. 



The Mediterranean (?). Lamarck. 



Gorgoniafurcata, Lamk., 2d ed., ii. 493. Gorgoniafurcata, Blainville, Man., 505. 

 , Lamour., Pol. flex., 410; Encyc.,444. 



49. GORGONIA FLAVIDA. (Lamarck.) Yellow; crowded cespitose, 

 subpinnate; branchlets terete, numerous; polyps crowdedly scattered, 

 cortex thick, not verrucose. 



West Indies. Seba. Mauger. 



Keratophytan ramulis lateralibus brevibus 

 conjugatis, crusta obscurl luted tectum. 

 Locus Natalis Nova Hispania, Seba, 

 Thes. iii., tab. 107, fig. 8. The pinnules 



are about a line thick, and nearly an inch 



long, and the surface is scattered over 

 wilh oscules. The whole specimen is 

 about five inches in height. 



Gorgoniaflavida, Lamk., ii. 496, No. 2(>. 



, Lamour., Pol. flex. ,402; Encyc.,441. 



50. GORGONIA ELONGATA. (Pallas.) Reddish ; very tall (often four 

 feet); branches few, dichotomous, very long, short verrucose; axis 

 pale. 



West Indies. Ellis. Esper. 



Gorgonia dongata, Pallas, Zooph., 179. G. elongata, Esper, Fortsetz., ii. 35, tab. 55. 

 , Ellis and Solander, 98. 



51. GORGONIA JUNCEA. (Pallas.} Colour subminiaceous; stem 

 quite simple, very long, terete; surface crowdedly short-verrucose. 



Indian Ocean. Pallas. Esper. Amboyna. Seba. 



Kerataphyton simplex, tantum conslat vi- 

 mine indiviso crusta untliquaque tar- 

 iarea nodosa ; rubra utcumque in luteum 

 vergente, Seba, Thes. iii., tab. 105, fig. 1 a. 



Palmjuncus albus, Rumph. Amb. vi. 226 : 

 Rumphius states that it is sometimes 

 eleven feet long, and as thick as the fin- 



ger. His name, albus (white), alludes to 

 the pale colour of Ihe axis ; the crust is 

 described as red. 



Gorgonia juncea, Pallas, Zooph., ISO: 

 " Simplicissima, attenuata, siibflexuosa, 

 cortice crasso rubro verrucoso." 



, Esper, Fortsetz. ii., 26. tab. 52. 



