SUBORDER ALCYONARIA. 665 



Gorgonia juncea, Lamk., 2d ed., ii. 499, bone (axis) is of a dark-coloured horny 



No. 34. consistence ; this is covered with an 



The Gorgonia juncea of Ellis, was from the orange-coloured flesh, full of longish little 



West Indies, where it was " found by Mr. mouths." (Ellis and Solander, 81 ; Gmel. 



Greg." It was three feet long, "a single Linn. Syst. Nat., 3801.) 



rounded stem, smaller at each end. The 



52. GORGONIA SUFFRUTICOSA. (Dana.} Ash-coloured; fruticulose, 

 very crowdedly ramulo'us ; branches and branchlets flexuous and irre- 

 gular, mostly terete, some nodose; branchlets one-half to one and a 

 half inches long and one line thick; cortex rather thick, smooth, 

 with punctiform oscules, minute and throughout crowdedly scattered ; 

 polyps quite small, yellowish, with the tentacles fringed and short. 



Plate 59, fig. 7, part of zoophyte, natural size ; 7 a, polyp, enlarged ; 

 7 ', same, natural size. 



The Feejee Islands, Mathuata reefs. Exp. Exp. 



This is a rough-looking species with a Plexaura habit, very crowd- 

 edly and closely branched, and having the branches often bent and 

 uneven. To add to its squarrose appearance, there are occasional 

 tubercles a fourth of an inch in diameter, containing each a barnacle. 

 There is not the slightest trace of verrucae. 



53. GORGONIA RAMULOSA. (Ehrenberg.) Dana. Yellow; eight inches 

 high and five broad, erect, dichotomous; branches virgate, densely 

 subverticillate, with simple or sparingly divided branchlets, nearly an 

 inch long, and one line thick; surface densely polypiferous, smooth, 

 with the oscules like minute points. 



West Indies. Ehrenberg. 



Eunicea ramulosa, Ehrenberg, op. cit., Gen. Ixxxii., sp. 18. 



54. GORGONIA SPICIFERA. (Dana.) Ash-coloured; eight inches 

 high, subdichotomous; branches on all sides densely ramulous, with 

 simple, rigid branchlets, one and a half to two inches long and nearly 

 aline thick, terete, finely, crowdedly, and obsolescently verrucose; 

 axis fuscous, cortex rather thick. 



West Indies (?). Boston Nat. Hist. Soc. 



The oscules are minute punctures, and are situated on the upper 

 side of the small obsolescent verrucaa. Successive branchlets on the 

 main stem, are scarcely one-fourth of an inch apart. 



B. Polyps few, remote; zoophytes sometimes siibfiabellute. 



55. GORGONIA TRICIIOSTEMMA. (Dana) Brown, summits flesh- 



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