SUBORDER ALCYONARIA. 669 



West Indies. 



This species has the habit of the flexuosa, but its branches, though 

 of nearly the same diameter, are longer, and the surface is more de- 

 cidedly verrucose. 



Lithophyton longe racemosum, &c., Catesby's Carolina, ii., tab. 21. 

 Eunicea quincuncialis, Ehrenberg, op. cit., Gen. Ixxxii., sp. 16. 



62. GORGONIA DICHOTOMA. (Esper.} Furcato-dichotomous, two feet 

 high, axils arcuate; branches terete, slightly attenuated; branchlets 

 often a foot long, two to three lines thick; oscules linear, numerous; 

 cortex a line thick, axis wood-brown and not flexible. 



West Indies. 



The axis of the branches is not slender setiform, as in the antipathes 

 and hamomatta, and at apex, even, is not flexible. 



Gorgonia dicfwtoma, Esper, ii. 59, tab. 14 ; the axis of a specimen, wood-like in ap- 

 pearance, incrusted in part by an Alcyonium and a Millepora. 

 , Lamarck, ii. 503, No. 37. 



63. GORGONIA VERMICULATA. (Lamarck.) Ramose, one to two 

 feet high, dichotomous ; branches erect, long, terete ; above nearly 

 two to three lines thick ; surface smooth, oscules large and round ; 

 axis black, axils not compressed. 



West Indies? East Indies? Lamarck. 



This species is a little larger than the homomalla, with the upper 

 branchlets often longer and a little stouter, and having large round 

 oscules. Though the size of the upper branches is scarcely larger 

 than in the dichotoma, the axis which they contain is one-half smaller, 

 and is flexible. 



Gorgonia vermiculata, Lamarck, ii. 497, full a fourth of an inch thick, with the 



No. 29. oscules large. The axis, a foot from the 



Gorgonia friabilis (?), Lamouroux, Exp. summit, is about a line in diameter. An- 



Meth., 35 ; East Indies. other from the West Indies, in the col- 



Gorgonia porosa (?), Esper, ii. 49, tab. 10, lections of the Boston Natural History 



East Indies ? Society, has the upper branches often a 



Esper's figure represents a specimen sup- foot long, about two lines thick above, 



posed to be from the East Indies, with and three at base. 



the large round oscules of the above, but There are probably two species here in- 



the upper branchlets four to six inches eluded, one from the West Indies, and 



long, three to four lines thick at base, another from the East Indies ; the latter 



and one and a half lines at apex. is the Plczaura friabilis of Lamouroux, 



A specimen in Peale's Museum, has long and the Gorgonia porosa (tab. 10), of 



branches, nearly cylindrical, and above, Esper. 



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