HYPNOGOKGIAB.E. 



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128. Phenilia sanguinolenta. B.M. 



Coral yellowish ; branches flexuous, interwoven ; branchlets short, 

 clavate, diverging ; cells large, dark brick-red, making the coral look 

 as if spotted with blood. 



Phenilia sanguinotenta, Gray, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 482. 



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Fig. 9. 



Phenilia sanguinolenta. 



b. Bark formed of large imbedded spicules ; polype-cells adpressed to the 

 sides of the branches, covered with well-marked spicules, mouth of cell 



Fam. 15. HYPNOGORGIAD^E. 



Coral branched ; branches numerous, drooping, pendulous ; branch- 

 lets subopposite. Bark rough, with naked spicules. Calyces adpressed, 

 adnate to the sides of the branches, formed of spicules, mouth large, 



ciliated. Axis calcareous, black. 



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