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1. Leiopathes glaberrima. B.M. 



Leiopathes glaberrima, Gray, Proc. Comm. Sci. Zool. Soc. ii. 41. 

 Antipathes glaberrima, Esper, ii. t. 9. 

 1 Antipathes dichotoma, Pallas, 216. 

 Marsillii, Lith.no. 9. t. 101. f. 21 ? 

 The Black coral of commerce. 

 Mediterranean ; Malta. 



Marsilli observed the coral covered with minute blotches on one 

 side when he first obtained it. 



2. Leiopathes Bosch. 



" Stem flexible, branched ; branches diverging, extremities seta- 

 ceous." 



Antipathes Boscii, Lamx. Pol. Flex. 375. t. 14. f. 5 ; Corallina, 

 191. t. 14. f. 5. 



Carolina. 



Lamaroux's figures represent the bark forming small masses be- 

 tween the branchlets, as I have observed it on the Madeira speci- 

 men. 



Some of the smooth species referred to the genus Antipathes by 

 Esper, as A.fceniadacea, t. 7 ; A. clathrata, Pallas, Esper, t. 2; 

 A. lingulata, Esper, t. 5, are evidently the axes of some species of 

 Gorgoniadce that have lost their bark. 



2. Antipathes. 

 Antipathes, Gray, Syn. B.M. 1842. 



Bark fleshy, with imbedded, large and small brown (siliceous) 

 plates, easily deciduous. Axis simple or branched, horny, covered 

 with numerous close small subcylindrical spines. 



Mr. Dana observes, — " The examination of the animal of two 

 species (A. anguina and A. arborea, t. 56. f. 1, 2), has led to an 

 arrangement of them with Actinoida, as the tentacles have the 

 naked character peculiar to this suborder, and the polypes closely 

 resemble those of the Madrepores in appearance and habit." — Dana, 

 p. 575. 



From the examination of the animal of A. glaberrima and A. an- 

 guina, I am led to the opposite conclusion that they are true zoo- 

 phytes. I am aware that the tentacles do not appear pinnated when 

 they are examined after they have been dried, but this is the case 

 with the animals of all the Gorgoniadce I have examined under 

 similar conditions. The pinnse appear to be permanently withdrawn 

 under such circumstances. 



* Coral simple, fiexuous or spiral, unbranched. Cirripathes. 



1. Antipathes spiralis, Pallas, P. Z.S. 1857, p. 113; Radiata, 

 pi. 6. B.M. 



Gorgonia spiralis, Linn. S. N. 1290. 



Antipathes spiralis, Ellis, Zooph. 99. t. 19. f. 1-6. 



Mollucca {Ellis). 



