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spicula or spindles (Fig. 3, 6), usually acute at one or both ends, and more 
or less curved ; the larger of these measure about .25 by .03 mm. to .25 by 
.04 mm. 
Station. Fathoms, N. Lat. W. Long. Specimens. 
318 337 31° 48’ 50” 77° 51’ 50” 2 
Family BRIAREIDZ. 
Anthothela Verrixt. 
Proc. Nat. Mus., I1., 1879, p. 199. 
Coral either incrusting or irregularly branched. Branched forms with a 
distinct spiculose axis, composed of fusiform spicula. Calicles prominent, 
not capable of being contracted within the ceenenchyma, eight-lobed at the 
summit. 
Anthothela grandiflora (Sars) Verri1t. 
Briareum grandiflorum Sars, Fauna Litt. Norvegie, p. 63, pl. 10, figs. 10-12. 
Anthothela insignis VERRILL, Check List Mar. Invert. N. England, 1879, p. 15. 
Anthothela grandiflora VERRILL, Notice of Recent Addit. to Mar. Invert., Part L, in 
Proc. National Mus., II., 1879, p. 199. 
Plate IV. Figs. 6, 6a. 
This species grows in various irregular shapes. It sometimes spreads over 
and completely incrusts shells, pebbles, sponges, hydroids, and especially the 
dead and denuded axes of gorgoniz, particularly of Ceratoisis ornata and Para- 
gorgia arborea. At other times it grows up into more or less slender sparingly 
and irregularly branched forms, the branches often reuniting, and several 
inches in length. When incrusting gorgonia it is apt to run out beyond the 
ends of the gorgonian branches, continuing them by branches of its own. The 
ccenenchyma is rather thin, firm, and coriaceous, composed of irregular longer 
and shorter coarsely and roughly warted fusiform and oblong spicula. 
The axis, in the branched forms, is sufficiently distinct, though not very dif- 
ferent from the ccenenchyma in consistency ; it is composed of strongly and 
roughly warted fusiform spicula similar to those of the ceenenchyma, but 
mostly more slender and with fewer warts; these are rather compactly 
crowded together. The calicles are large and prominent, usually, in alcoholic 
specimens, hour-glass shape, largest distally, and with a constriction near 
the top below the bases of the tentacles ; sometimes they are verruciform; the 
upper part is eight-lobed, and more or less eight-ribbed. The tentacles are 
commonly incurved and contracted in the form of eight convergent lobes on 
the top of the calicles. They are filled with numerous large, fusiform, warty 
spicula, The calicles are filled with roughly warted spicula (Fig. 6a, g, h), 
