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The base, which is present in one example, is calcareous, and spreads out 
widely and irregularly over a fragment of dead coral. The calicles are larger 
than in either of the two preceding species; they mostly stand at nearly right 
angles to the branches, but those near the tips are oblique; they are constricted 
somewhat above the swollen base, but enlarged and eight-lobed at the summit. 
The sides of the calicles are covered with unusually large, fusiform and oblong, 
finely warted spicula, longitudinally and obliquely arranged; at their bases, and 
in the cenenchyma near their bases, are longer and thicker fusiform spicula, 
usually acute and finely warted or spinulated; near and around the bases of 
the terminal calicles (Fig. 5) these often become remarkably large. The ccenen- 
chyma elsewhere on the branches is filled with much elongated, slender, acute, 
fusiform spicula of the same character, but smaller; on the main stem, near the 
base, they are much smaller, short, oblong, blunt, and roughly warted. 
Height, 210 mm.; breadth, 60 mm. 
The following specimens were dredged by the Blake, 1877-79. 
Station. Fathoms. Locality. Specimens. 
1877-78. 
44 539 N. Lat. 25° 33’, W. Long. 84° 35’ 3 good, with bases. 
1878-79. 
190 542 Off Dominica 1 and fragments. 
195 5024 “ Martinique 3 typical. 
205 334 & re Ly eas 
222 422 “ St. Lucia Fragments. 
227 573 “ St. Vincent 1 
Dasygorgia squamata VERRILIL, sp. nov. 
Coral spirally branched, nearly as in the preceding species, with which it 
agrees nearly in size and appearance. 
The axis is yellowish or amber-colored, with a pale iridescence. The calicles 
are large, about the same in size and shape as those of D. sguamosa, and mostly 
stand nearly at right angles to the branch. They are decidedly enlarged at 
the summit, and are unusually smooth, owing to the nature of the spicula, 
which are rather large, flat and smooth, scale-like, oval, oblong, or irregular in 
shape, and so closely imbricated and fitted together as to resemble a coat of 
mail, giving the surface of the calicles a smooth appearance under the micro- 
scope; these flat spicula are iridescent; near the summit and on the eight 
lobes, at the bases of the tentacles the spicula become smaller, narrower, and 
oblong. The ccenenchyma is filled with smaller, smoothish, flat, oblong and 
irregular, scale-like spicula, which become larger and more scale-like near the 
calicles. : 
The following specimens were dredged by the Biake, 1878-79. 
Station. Fathoms. Locality. Specimens. | 
227 573 Off St. Vincent 1 
283 237 “ Barbados 2 
