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Spicula deep red ; the longer double-spindles acute at the ends, 
with about three whorls of crowded warts on each half; stouter 
ones shorter and thicker, obtuse, usually with two crowded whorls 
and a terminal cluster of warts on each half. The longer double- 
0 12 inches long, 
round, slightly tapering, ascending and subparallel, cells scattered 
er the whole surface, except on a narrow median space, rather 
‘12 of an inch; of branchlets in middle -08 to ‘10; of their axis 
‘Uz to Spicula deep red and yellowish red; longer double- 
spindles slender, acute, with three or four well separated whorls of 
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by -036, -120 by -048, "120 by -042, *120 by -036, -108 by 048, -096 
by 042; the stouter ones 096 by ‘048, 090 by -048, 079 by ‘042, 
‘079 by -036; the small ones ‘060 by ‘030, 054 by ‘030, -054 by 
024 
Florida Reefs.—G. Wurdemann. 
is species externally somewhat resembles LZ. virgulata of the 
Carolina coasts, but has longer, more terete, and more regular 
oe : 
192 by -048), and relatively more slender, with five or six whorls 
of warts on each half. The authentic spi 
widely from those of this species, being much more slender and 
more distantly warted. 
ta Verrill (Lophogorgia clavata Horn), 
ite distinct from any other known to me. 
Well separated warts; ) 
and thick, with blunt or obtuse ends, each half having a whorl of 
large rough warts and a much smaller whorl at the end blend- 
