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

 what like a sea-horse straightened out. * On a dead Oorgo- 

 nia-skem young Dog-fish (p. 89) in the egg. 



Fig. 103. Syngnathus acits (Pipe-fish), 



nat. size. p. 95. 



Hard Corals p. 59). Sea-fan (Qorgonia , 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. * Bed Coral ( Qorallium, fig. 106 , the 

 coral used in jewellery; there is a conserved branch in a 

 glass bottle). White Coral (Isis, 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 ostrich plume, 

 Sea-pen (Pennatula, fig. 110). 



Sea-anemones. Alicia, fig. 111). 



