SUBORDER ALCYONARIA. 671 



E"tiin'ii micro/held, Lamouroux, Pol. flex., mammillis conicis subeminentibus, cortice 

 435; Deslongchamps, Encyc., 380: "E. friabili cretaceo." 

 ramosa, sul)pinnata, ramis incurvatis ; 



NOTE. The Eitnicca sulerosa of Ehrenberg is described from a West India specimen 

 and reference made at the same time to Esper's tab. 30. " Semipedalis, isabellina, dicho- 

 toma, ramulosa, ramis brevibus, vix bipollicaribus, summis apice 1 j'" crassis, ibique tur- 

 gidulis, basi curvis, polypis dense sparsis, superficiem verruculosam reddentibus." He 

 adds that the axis is corneous, and the cortex is two-thirds of a line thick and purplish 

 within. It is not the Gorgonia snberosa of other authors, and appears to be the Gorgo- 

 nia calyculata of Ellis, which is thus described : " G. dichotoma, ramulis crassis, arrectis ; 

 papillis truncatis ; carne cinerascente, intus purpurea, osculis majoribus, calyciformibus, 

 confertis, sursum spectantibus ; polypis octotentactilatis, cirratis ; osse corneo subfusco." 



66. GORGONIA CLAVARIA. (Lamouroux.) Edwards. Somewhat fus- 

 cous; ramose, very stout; branches subterete, clavato-elongate, five 

 to ten lines thick ; verrucse unequal, aperture one line broad. 



AVest Indies. 



Lamouroux mentions a specimen of this species seven inches high, 

 having the branches about an inch thick. The verrucse in Ellis's 

 figure are one and one-fourth lines broad and the same in length. 



Ellis and Solander, tab. 18, fig. 2. , Blainville, Man., 507. 



Ett/iiceaclavaria, Lamour., Pol. flex., 437; , Ehrenb., G. Ixxxii., sp. 20. 



Exp. Meth., 36, pi. 18, fig. 2; Encyc., Gorgonia clavaria, Lamk., 2d ed., ii. 505, 



381. No. 42 a. 



67. GORGONIA PSEUDO-ANTIPATHES. (Lamarck.) Somewhat fus- 

 cous; one foot in height ; ramose, dichotomous ; branches ascending, 

 four to five lines thick, terete, not attenuate; surface of cortex verru- 

 cose, verrucfe stout, one line long, and two-thirds broad, opening up- 

 ward, outer lip prolonged and often a little incurved. 



West Indies. 



The verruca? are set on the branches like the calicles of a Madre- 

 pore. The cortex is about a line thick and very dark brown in the 

 dry state. The axis is black. The branches are often nearly in a 

 plane. 

 Gorgonia pseudo-antipalhes, Lamk., ii. Gorgonia succincal Esper, Fortsetz., i. 



504, No. 40. 163, tab. 46. Resembles a flabellate 



Eunicca pseudo-antipalhcs, Lamour., Pol. specimen seen by the author, except that 



flex., 437 ; Encyc., 381. it is a little more slender, and the ver- 



Eiii/icea succinca, Ehrenb., G. Ixxxii. sp. ruca? appear in the figure to open out- 



21. ward instead of upward. 



68. GORGONIA MADREPORA. (Dana.) Pale, five inches high ; 



