78 VEREILL, SYNOPSIS OF 



bases of the tentacles are red and conspicuous, like those 

 of the coenenchyma. Spicula mostly light red with some 

 grayish yellow. Longer spindles long, often bent, grad- 

 ually tapering to the ends, which are slender and acute, 

 covered over the whole length, with rough truncated pro- 

 jections, which are largest in the middle and diminish 

 to each end. Shorter spindles considerably stouter, with 

 more crowded projections, often with one end obtuse and 

 the other acute, smaller spindles slender, rather acute, 

 with unequal scattered warts. Irregular spicula fre- 

 quently composed of a slender axis, naked in the middle, 

 with an irregular group of four or five large, rough, some- 

 what subdivided warts at each end ; others have similar 

 warts scattered over the whole length ; others have large 

 rough warts at one end, which gradually diminish towards 

 the other end, where they are quite small, thus producing 

 a somewhat club-shaped form. A few very small, simple, 

 cross-shaped spicula occur. 



The longer spindles measure .420 millimetres by .090. 

 millimetres ; .372 by .084 ; .360 by .096 ; .348 by .084 ; 

 .324 by .096 ; .300 by .072. The stouter ones .288 by 

 .084 ; .288 by .072 ; .264 by .084. The smaller ones .228 

 by .084; .216 by .042; .180 by .060; .180 by .048. 

 Irregular ones .144 by .072 ; .108 by .060 ; .108 by .048 ; 

 .096 by .060. 



Anthogorgia Verrill, op. cit., p. 412. 



Verrucse prominent, tubular, the summit eight-rayed in 

 contraction, formed by a thin integument, in the surface of 

 which, large, long, mostly bent spindles are imbedded at 

 various angles, and so interlaced as to form a sort of net- 

 work of spicula, with depressions between. Coenenchyma 

 thin, granulous, filled with large, warty spicula, similar to 

 those of the verrucee, but usually shorter and stouter. 



Anthogorgia divaricata Verrill, op. cit., p. 412, = 

 Muriceaf divaricata Y. (Vol. IV, p. 1^^, Plate 5, fig. 

 6, 6a.) 



The enlarged figure of the verrucse (Plate 5, fig. 6a) 

 does not represent the spicula properly. They should be 



