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ZOOPHYTES. 



sparingly ramose ; branches four to five lines thick, elongate, with 

 the surface strongly verrucose, verrucse numerous, subcylindrical, 

 standing nearly erect upon the surface, three-quarters of a line thick, 

 and one to one and a quarter long; cortex very thick; -the corneous 

 axis hardly a line broad, black. 



West Indies. Philad. Acad. Nat. Sci. 



The perpendicular verrucse distinguish this species from the pseudo- 

 antipathes ; the summit-polyp is much broader than the others. 



69. GORGONIA PLANT AGINEA. (Lamarck.) Fuscous; ramose, stout, 

 erect; branches terete, echinulate ; cortex spongy, verrucse conical, 

 erect, much crowded. 



West Indies ? Lamarck. 



Gorgonia plantaginea, Lamk., ii. 505, No. 



inollis, Lamour., Pol. flex., 436; Encyc., 

 381. "E. teres, dichotoma, ramis flex- 

 uoso-recurvatis, implexis ; cortice spon- 

 gioso, fusco; mammillis numerosis, mar- 

 ginibus laceris." Mediterranean. 



41. 



Gorgonia succinea? Esper, Fortsetz., i. 



163, tab. 46. 

 Gorgonia mottis? Gmel., Syst. Nat., 3799. 



Olivier, Zool. Adriat., 233. Eunicca 



70. GORGONIA LIMA. (Lamarck ) Whitish; ramose, dichotomous; 

 branchlets two and a half lines thick ; verrucose, verrucse slender, 

 very densely crowded ; axis corneous, black, compressed at the axils. 



West Indies. Tournefort. Lamarck. 



LitJurphytum Americannm, &c., Tourne- Eunicca limiformis, Lamour., Pol. flex., 



fort, Mem. de 1'Acad. Roy. des Sci., 



1700, p. 34, plate 1 ; also, Inst., 574. 

 Gorgonia muricata, Esper, ii., tab. 8. 

 Gorgonia lima, Lamk., ii. 505, No. 42. 



436; Exp. Meth., 36; Encyc., 380; 

 figure 1, plate 18, in Exp. Meth., we 

 have referred to the M. placomus. 



71. GORGONIA MAMMOSA. (Lamouroux.} Edwards. Eight inches; 

 ramose, subdichotomous ; verrucas terete, one to three lines long, im- 

 bricate. 



West Indies. 



Eunicca mammosa, Lamour., Pol. flex., Gorgonia mammosa, Lamk., 2d ed., ii. 



438 ; Exp. Meth., 36, pi. 70, fig. 3 ; En- 506, No. 42 b. 



eye., 381. Gorgonia muricata (?), Esper, tab. 39 A. 

 , Blainv., Man., 507, pi. 87, fig. 4. 



D. Unarranged species. 



72. GORGONIA PUHPUREA. Violaceous, subdichotomous, branches divaricate, virgate, 

 subverrucose. Pallas, Zooph., 187; Lamarck, 2d ed., ii. 501, No. 35m; Lamouroux, 

 Polyp, flex., 416 ; Encyc., 446. 



