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ELLISELLAB^E. 



50. RETICELLA. 



Coral fan-like, branched ; branches inosculating from a network. 

 Bark rather thin. Polype-cells wart-like, prominent on the sides of 

 the branches. Axis calcareous, white. 



Verrucella, 1, Milne-Ediv, 8f Haime, Coratt. i. p. 184. 



The sections are wrongly placed in Milne-Edwards and Haime's 

 * Coralliaires,' i. p. 184. 



122. Reticella flexuosa. 



Coral very much branched, fan-shaped, yellow brown ; branches 

 sometimes coalescing, but generally free, rather swollen near the 

 end ; bark thick, corky, very friable ; polype-cells large, rounded, 

 placed laterally. 



Gorgonia flexuosa, Lamk. H. A. s. V. ii. p. 314. 



Gorgonella flexuosa, Valenc. I. c. p. 14 ; Kolliker, Ic. Hist. p. 140. 



Verrucella flexuosa, Milne-Edw. fy Haime, Coratt. i. p. 184. 



Hob. China? 



51. BRANDELLA. 



Coral very much branched, very slender, linear ; branches diver- 

 ging, pinnate, and nearly parallel to each other ; branchlets pinnate, 



Fig. 8. 



Brandetta intricata. 



