orgonacere 
with ho orny | axis t © Gongonta in which he forms three sections, 
peacteniaed “ee the s ai— 
3 
2d. ages having spindles and crescen Piggies: or backer ahaped 
sptcula (“ Klammern” is corresponds nearly with Pero 
gia Ebr., Dy Cte Xiphigorgia, Prerog ile and Hymenogor- 
ae of Edwards , and Rhipidogorgia flabel al. 
d. Species having a peculiar external tape of elub-shaped Spie- 
= This includes the typical species of Gorgonia, as restricted 
ards, 
yeaa he the 17 species which are in the Museum of Yale College 
from the west coast of America, not a single one can be referred 
iterranean and ye cto 80 ea as known. The Panamic species di- 
vide naturally into two groups, containing about equal numbers. 
Ist. Species having only warty “ double-spindles” in the ccenen- 
chyma, which are of two sorts, longer an 
2d. Species having “ double-spindles ” and “ double-wheels.” 
In ich, of these groups the modes of branching are various, and 
there are species with either flat or raised cells. These groups, 
like the 2d and 3d of Killiker’s, seem sufficiently marked and dis- 
tinct to merit. recognition either as genera or, ce a as sub-gen- 
e ames 
: Vs in 
rill, G. pumila V., and other species with pinnate 
oe for the 2d group. These species all have : a a distinctly 
nulose 
pg ons Fo virgate or 
flabellifi liform ; = stenobrachie Val, with veciemesad branchlets ; 
G. “hese Nes and G. Mexicana S with — ones, and 
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t ce 
(Lit anal Adamsi Verrill, yorgia ventalin 
Duck. a fich., Supl., (after May) are p- ae ab, ii, f. 3. fan 
Gorgonia ventalina allas 
r. (Litigorgia) levis errill, Proc. B. N. H., p. 327, 1866, — 
a alba Duch. and Mich., op. eg p- 19, Tab. iv, fig. 2, 
1864 (non Gage ie alba I 
Ok ( iy Aaa ‘errill, = Lo ephogorgia aurantiaca 
Horn, Proe. Phil ee ot hak Sci., 1860, p. 233; Gorgonia auran- 
aca Verrill, Bull. M. C. Z., p. 33, (non Gorgonia aurantiaca Hes 
a Cora, 1857). 
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