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Spicules. These are all of the bar-like form, the bars often being somewhat expanded 

 distally. Their ends are evenly rounded and their surfaces are quite smooth showing merely 

 a very fine, dense, granulated appearance under moderately high powers of the microscope. 

 Their profiles are smooth, not showing verrucae or points of any size. They resemble in form 

 certain spicules found in the Isidae, e. g. Bathygorgia profunda, but are smoother than any 

 others that the writer has seen. 



Color. The colony is very light brown and the axis is the same. 



This remarkable form shows a close resemblance to certain Isidae, and would be placed 

 in that family were the axis jointed. It also shows an approach to the Primnoidae in the cha- 

 racter of the operculum. 



