674 ZOOPHYTES. 



broad, and branchlets subcom pressed ; surface crowdedly covered 

 with armed subimbricate verrucee; axis black, throughout very much 

 flattened and two-edged, axils broad. 



West Indies. 



The axis of the branchlets is one-fourth to half a line wide, and 

 very thin, or two-edged. The verruca are a little longer than in the 

 elongata. 



Gorgonia muricata, Ellis and Solander, 82. The specimens are generally less stout 



, Lamarck, ii. 506, No. 43. above than represented by Lamouroux j 



Eunicca muricata, Lamour., Pol. flex., 439. and the verruca;, when dried, often have 

 Muricea spicifera, Lamour., Exp. Meth., a different form. 



36, tab. 71, figs. 1, 2; Encyc., 558. , Ehrenberg, G. Ixxxi., sp. 3. 



Gorg. muricata, var., Esper ii., tab. 39. The verruca? are a little too large, but the 

 enlarged drawings are not unlike some specimens seen by the author. 



The Gorgonia laxispica of Lamarck (ii. 507, No. 44), is described as follows: " G. 

 ramosa, ramis spicceformibus, longiusculis, laxfe muricatis ; papillis cylindricis, arrectis." 

 Milne Edwards adds that it is very near the muricata, but with more slender verruca?, 

 which are less decidedly armed with spicula, and have a more distinct bilabiate opening. 



80. G. MURICEA ELONGATA. (Lamour oux.} Sulphur yellow ; a foot 

 high; fruticulose, ramulous, but not in a plane; branchlets nearly 

 terete, one and a half lines broad, obtuse, elongate, verrucose ; verrucae 

 much crowded, imbricate, scarcely a line long. 



West Indies. 



Muricea elongata, Lamour., Exp. Meth.,37, , Blainville, Man., 509. 



pi. 71, figs. 3, 4 ; Encyc., 559. Gorgonia virgata, Lamk., ii. 506. 



The Muricea sulphurea (?), Ehrenb., G. Ixxxi., sp. 4. A young specimen ? It is de- 

 scribed as follows : " 5" lata, 3" alta, minor, gracilior (quam spicifera), fruticulosa, dense 

 ramulosa, nee flabellata, sulphurea, ramis teretiusculis, papillosis, lj'" latis, obtusis, papillis 

 paulo brevioribus, nee angustioribus, spiculis sulphureis, appressis." Locality unknown. 



81. G. MURICEA PLACOMUS. (Linn.} Ehrenberg. Cinereous or fus- 

 cous, large, flabellate, much ramose; branches flexuous, sometimes 

 coalescing, one and a half to three lines thick, strongly verrucose, 

 verrucse three-fourths of a line broad and high, divaricate, and laxly 

 arranged; surface armed, closed at summit by a calyptra made of 

 eight convergent spicula; axis brownish, axils scarcely compressed. 



Mediterranean Sea (?). Norwegian Sea. 



The flexuous branchings, rough and uneven, from the irregularly 

 crowded spinulous verrucse standing nearly at right angles with the 

 surface, have a very peculiar aspect. The verruca are either coni- 



