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Fishes. Pipe-fish (Syngnaihus, fig. 103), long thin body, 

 something like a sea-horse straightened out. *On a dead 

 Gorgonia-stem young Dog-fish (p. 89) in the egg. 



Fig. 103. Syngnaihus acus, 

 ! /2 nat. size- P- 95. 



Hard Corals (p. 59). Sea-fan (Gorgonia, fig. 105), fan-like 

 red branches in back-ground. Black Coral (Antipathes, 

 fig. 107), an even black stem, the thickness of a boot- 

 lace, with very fine branches. Red Coral (Corallium, 

 fig. 106, the coral used in jewellery), in a glass bottle. 

 White Coral (Is-is, fig. 104). The thickish grey branches 

 with bright yellow tops are Dendrophyllia (fig. 109). 

 Fleshy Corals (p. 58). On the bottom, pink and white 

 branches, thicker than the last named, is "Dead-men's- 

 fingers" (Alcyonium, fig. 108); pink, like a swollen ost- 

 rich plume, the Sea-pen (Pennatula, fig. 110). Sea-ane- 



mones. Alicia (fig. 111). 



