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them to Leptogorgia, including the first species, Z. viminalis, 
which may be regarded as most typical. Having received from 
Dr. Kolliker spicula from the original specimen of this ae seve- 
ral other species in the Paris Museum , 1 have found that im- 
inalis of Edw. an phase is a Litigorgia. The same is re of. 2 
their 4th species, L, rosea; the 7th, L. Webbiana; 8th, L.vim- 
inea,; 11th, LZ. vi ale a y 18th, E. virged Their 3d and 10th | 
: 
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tiaca) and Gorgonia Sasappo Pallas belongs also to Hehinogorgia; —__ 
the 12th, Z. Boryan my Supeats from the spicula to be a Gorgo- | 
nella, Altho ugh it might tter, on some accounts, to dismem- 
ber such a group and drop its name from the system, yet a close 
adherence to the laws of priority seems to require that the 
sense. Adopting se Naess ie genus, as modified, ote equiv- 
alent to our Lité, 
double-spindles, usually mingled with more or less ner and sho small 
heads and double heads; the polyp-spicula long and slender, sim- 
ple, with few warts. he cells are usually arranged in lateral 
rows or bands, and may be yore flat or more or less elevated on 
TTUCL. 
The following species of which I have personally examined the 
spicula, and probably esi others not yet seen by me, ap- 
pear to belong to this gen 
A.—Dichotomous! “abs arbore pi branched ; oe usually numerous, more 
or less elongated, often virgate, sometimes sub-pinn. 
a.—Cells not sonata on prominent verruce, flat or pect elevated. 
L. viminatis E. and H. Mediterranean and Canary Isles. 
L. Beie (Lam.) E. and H. Loc. (2). Perhaps a variety of the 
preceding. 
LL. Webbiana ae =~ H.* Canary Is ‘ 
L. virgulata E. and H. (+-Z. ot le re " North Florida to Cape 
Damas. 
LL. teres Verrill. “Bay of New York.” 
LL. virgea E. and H. ne ille 
LL. Floridana V., sp. v Fio rida. 
iv. (@. iokadet Esper, non Pall.) V. West Indies (?). 
L. festiva V. (Pterogorgia festiva Duch. and M.). Antilles. 
Perhaps the same as preceding. 
-<* The spicula from the original specimens of this and the two preceding species 
are very much alike in size and form, and they may well prove to be mere varla- 
tions of one one species ; binitiae Watriatloits fa dolor aise aa ol 
eos seen in L. virgulata from Charleston, S.C. The spicula of 
and L. r genoa: ages most nearly, and both are a little stouter than 
