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or obtuse fusiform spicula, often twice as long as the preceding, and equalling 
or exceeding them in breadth, and with the surface minutely spinulated. 
Some of these measured .34 by .04, .33 by .045, .82 by .04, .30 by .035, 
.25 by .03 mm. 
The ccenenchyma is very thin and delicate, filled with minute, flat, oblong, 
‘ obtuse spicula (Fig. 4b, ¢), in form much like the first or commonest kind 
from the calicles, described above, but rather smaller. 
The color of the calicles and ceenenchyma is pure white in alcohol. 
Dasygorgia elegans VERRILL, sp. nov. 
This species is closely allied to the preceding. 
Coral tall, round, symmetrical, elegantly spirally branched, with the main 
stem bent in zigzag, and the branches arranged nearly as in D. Agassiziz, but 
closer, shorter, and more numerously subdivided. The branchlets are shorter 
and less flexible, those from each branch are situated nearly in the same hori- 
zontal plane. The base consists of several rather long, divergent and descend- 
ing, clear white, calcareous, more or less crooked, root-like lobes, some of which 
are forked. The axis of the main stem is light brownish yellow, and but little 
iridescent; that of the branchlets is pale yellowish white with slight iridescence. 
The calicles are larger and stouter than in D. Agassizii, and set more nearly 
perpendicular to the branches. They are swollen at the base and summit, 
and terminate in eight distinct spiculose lobes. The sides are covered with 
stout, oblong, rather irregular, blunt, finely spinulated or warted spicula, which 
are decidedly larger, stouter, rougher, and less numerous than in D. Agassizit. 
The thin cenenchyma is filled with smaller, oblong, finely spinulated spicula, 
larger and rougher than those of D. Agassizii. 
Height, 160 mm.; breadth in middle, 45 mm. 
Station 283, in 237 fathoms, off Barbados, 1878-79. 
The following specimens were dredged by the Blake, 1878-79. 
Station. Fathoms. Locality. Specimens, 
260 291 Off Grenada 1 
283 237 “ Barbados 2 typical. 
284 347 < ct a: ihe 
Dasygorgia spiculosa VERRILL, sp. nov. 
Plate Il. Fig. 5. 
Coral larger and stouter, but spirally branched, as in the two preceding 
species. The branches are larger and longer, with fewer and less regular 
branchlets than in D. elegans, and they do not lie in horizontal planes; they 
diverge widely, at the successive forkings, and in different planes; the terminal 
ones are very slender. The main stem is rather stout and bent in zigzag at the 
origin of the branches; it is light brownish yellow, with little iridescence. 
