SUBORDER ALCYONARIA. 



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73. GORGONIA RICHARDII. (Lamouroux.) Yellowish, much branched; branches 

 scattered or sublateral, a little flabellate ; axis irregular, sometimes compressed, sub- 

 suberose, white; cortex thin, verruca: conical, half a line high. West Indies. Lamour., 

 Pol. flex., 407 ; Encyc., 443 ; Lamk., 2d ed., ii. 501, No. 35 i. 



74. GORGONIA' PENS A. (Lamarck.) Whitish, eight to ten inches high, lax-ramose> 

 complanate; branches furcate, pinnate, pinnules distichous, crowded, filiform, surface 

 remotely verrucose, verruca) ascending, bifarious. From New Holland. Peron Lesueur, 

 Lamk., ii. 508, No. 47, states that it resembles a large whitish plume-like Sertularia. 

 Lamour.,, Pol. flex., 418; Encyc., 446. 



75. GORGONIA MONILIFORMIS. (Lamarck.) Whitish, simple, filiform, erect ; ver- 

 ruca; prominent, umbilicate at apex, somewhat scattered; cortex very thin. From New 

 Holland. Lamk., ii. 496, No. 24 ; Lamour., Pol. flex.. 420 ; Encyc., 447. 



76. GOHGONIA COCCINEA. (Lamourouz.) Ramose; branches short, scattered, chla- 

 doniiform ; cortex scarlet ; Australian seas. Lamour., Pol. flex., 423 ; Encyc., 447 ; 

 Lamarck, 2d ed., ii. 502, No. 35 p. 



77. GORGONIA RIIIZOMORPHA. (Lamouroux.') Ramose; branches scattered, elon- 

 gate, like the fibres of a root; cortex brown, axis subcorneous. Near Bayonne. La- 

 mouroux, Pol. flex., 401 ; Encyc., 441 ; Lamk., 2d ed., ii. 500, No. 35 c. 



78. GORGONIA ALBA. (Lamarck.) Ramose ; subcompressed ; branches subpinnate, 

 erect; branchlets terete ; cortex white, oscules scattered. Lamk., ii. 499, No. 33; La- 

 mouroux, Encyc., 445. 



SUBGENUS III. MURICEA. 



Go-rgonice, polypis retractis, verrucose, verrucis per spicula aut squamas 

 armatis, fixis. 



Verrucose, in the retracted state of the polyps, the verrucas armed 

 with spicula or scales, and not movable. 



Arrangement of the Species. 



\. Verrucis spicido-armatis. 

 *79. G. Mur. spicifera. 

 *80. G. Mur. elongata. 



II. Verrucis squanndo-armatis. 

 83. G. Mur. verticillaris. 



*81. G. Mur. placomus. 

 82. G. Mur. cerea. 



84. G. Mur. myura. 



79. G. MURICEA SPICIFERA. (Lamouroux.) Pale, afoot high; fruti- 

 cose, with the branches much compressed, and three to four lines 



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