SUBORDER ALCYONARIA. 675 



cal, or nearly cylindrical ; the extremity is circular, and set about by 

 minute spicnles, like those of the sides, which encircle the depressed 

 calyptra, the cover to the terminal opening. 



Ellis and SolandCr, tab. 18, fig. 1 ; without , Latnk., ii. 492, No. 14; according 



description. This figure is referred by to Edwards, Lamarck's description per- 



Lamouroux, to the Gorgonia lima (p. tains to the G. verrucosa, and his Gorg. 



672) ; yet in that species the polyps are granifera is the above species. 



not, as here rep resented, 'at right angles , Lamouroux, Encyc., 443. 



with the stem. Espcr suggests, with much Muricca placomus, Ehrenb., G. lxxxi.,sp. 1. 



appearance of reason, that it may repre- The Muricea calyptrata of Ehrenberg (sp. 



sent this species. 2) is a doubtful species, near the placo- 



Gorgmtia placomus, Linn., ed. xii., 1290. mus, but with more slender branches, 



, Pallas, Zooph., 201. smaller polyps, and more obtuse verructe. 



, Esper, ii., tab. 33, 34, and 34 A. He refers to Esper's tab. 34 A. 



82. G. MURICEA CEREA. (Esper.) Ehrenberg. Low, slender, fruti- 

 culose, subflabellate, covered every where with spreading, reddish 

 spicula ; branches nearly terete, rather broader than a line, obtuse ; 

 polyps densely and throughout scattered, yellow above, one-third of a 

 line in breadth. 



East Indies. Esper. 



Goryoniu cerca, Esper, Fortsetz. i., tab. 47. Muricea cerea, Ehrenb., G. Ixxxi., sp. 5. 



83. G. MURICEA VERTICILLARIS. Ramose, flabellate, one and a half 

 feet high; branches pinnate; pinnules setaceous; verrucose, verrucae 

 ascending, incurved, verticillate, less than a line long. 



Mediterranean Sea. 



The verrucse are scattered or opposite on the smaller branchlets, but 

 verticillate below, in whorls, generally of four. They are usually 

 incurved with the extremity pointing nearly towards the branch. 



Ellis's Corallines, tab. 26, fig. s, t, v. , Lamk., ii. 507, No. 46. 



G'H-xoitid vcrt.kil/aris, Linn., ed. xii., 1289. , Lamour., Pol. flex., 417 ; Encyc., 446. 



, Pallas, Zooph., 177. Primnoa verticillaris, Ehrenb., G. Ixxx., 



, Esper, Fortsetz., i. 156, tab. 42. sp. 2. 



, Ellis and Solander, 83. 



Ehrenberg describes an allied species as follows, referring with a query, to Esper's tab. 

 42. " Primnoa fiabeUum. Sesquipedalis, gracilis, dichotoma, densfe ramosa, flabelli- 

 formis, virgata, (lavicans, polypis laxius imbricatis, verticillis ssepe irregularibus, polypis 

 singulis quadrifarian ('() scutatis, seriebus transversis 10, ultima majore, ut in Icpadifera." 

 Esper, in his description, states that the whorls, in his specimen, contained but six polyps. 



84. G. MURICEA MYURA. (Lamarck.} Whitish; simple, filiform, 



