684 ZOOPHYTES. 



timis, passim I'" minoribus, flexuosis, articulis, 3-8'" bngis ; cwtice 

 verrucoso, verruds parvulis ("'), et minimt ascendentibus ; polypis 

 kete flavis; axe calcareo fere kvi. 



Fruticulose, 3 inches high; deep scarlet; much branched, branches 

 and branchlets very slender, in no part a line thick, flexuous ; joints 

 3 to 8 lines long; cortex verrucose, verruca? small (J of a line broad), 

 not at all ascending; polyps bright yellow ; calcareous axis nearly 

 smooth. 



Sandwich Islands. 



This species is much more slender than the preceding, and the 

 branches are not in a plane, and rarely coalescent. The axis is 

 pale red. The stem at base is hardly three-fourths of a line thick, 

 and the axis of the same is less than half a line. 



