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146. Chrysogorgia Desbonni. 



Coral small, branched at the base ; branches very slender. Bark 

 white, thin; cells far apart, three or four times as thick as the 

 branches ; axis yellow. 



Crysogorgia Desbonni, Duchass, & Michel. Corall. Antilles. Suppl. 



p. 107, t. 1. f. 7, 8, . 115, t. 4. f. 5, 6. 

 Riisea, tkichass. fy Michel. Corall. Antilles, Suppl. p. 108. 

 Riisea parnula, D. fy M. 1. c. p. 104. 



Hob. Guadaloupe ; 3 or 4 inches high. 



t Polype-cells ovate, pendulous, in series on the two sides of the axis. 

 70. MYURA. 



Coral elongate, simple. Bark white. Cells elongate, incurved, in 

 two rows, one on each side of the stem, in an attenuated series ; lateral 

 groove distinct. 



Myura, Gray, P. Z. 8. 1859, p. 484. 



147. Mynra simplex. 



Simple, filiform, whitish ; cells claviform, transversely ridged, as- 

 cending, incurved, placed in alternate rows, one on each side of the 

 stem. 



Gorgonia myura, Lamk. Mem. n. 23, Hist. A. s. V. ii. , Lamx. Polyp. 



Flex. p. 420. 



Muricea myura, Dana, Exp. p. 675. n. 84. 

 Primnoa myura, Milne-Ediv. Corall. i. p. 142, t. 2 B. f. 3 ; Kdlliker, Ic. 



Hist. p. 135, 1. 17. f. 14. 

 Myura simplex, Mus. Paris; Gray, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 484. 



Hob. ? 



71. FANELLIA. 



Coral branched in a plane, flabelliform, consisting of several large 

 branches arising from near the base, which give off alternately from 

 each side numerous long, slender, acute branchlets, which rise at 

 a very acute angle with the main branches, and are often again 

 subdivided in the same way ; branches and branchlets strongly com- 

 pressed in the plane of the branches. Axis delicately striated, stony 

 near the base, brown ; the branchlets yellowish white, thick, tips 

 setaceous. Height 24 inches; diameter of longitudinal branches 

 \ inch. Coenenchyma and polype not observed. 



148. Fanellia compressa. 



Primnoa compressa, Verrill, Proc. Essex Inst. 1865, p. 189. 

 Hob. Aleutian Islands. 



72. RIISEA. 



Coral branched, paniculate. Bark thin, cretaceous, smooth, with 

 a distinct lateral groove. Cells alternate, largely pedicelled, bell- 



