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ing with the small terminal cluster; closely warted heads and 
double-heads also occur; the polyp-spicula are very long and 
mostly remarkably slen der 
e longer double-spindles measure *108™™ by ‘036, -092 by 042, 
084 oi 036, ‘079 by °036; the stouter ones 084 by. 048, 079 by 
042, 072 by 042, -072 by 054; double-heads -054 by 042, "042 
by 042, 030 by 030; polyp- spicala 192 by °036, °168 by 012, "132 
by ‘024, 132 by -018, “120 by 0 
Locality unknown. (Coll. Phil Academy.) 
orgia aurantiaca V. (E. on xicana V., this Journal, xlv, p. 
415, 1868; Trans. Conn. Acad, i, p. 410. = — Lopho gorgia auranti- 
aca Horn » 1860, = Gorgonia bicolor Val. MS., Paris Mus.). 
togorgia aurantiaca of Edw. and Haime proves to be an 
Echinogorgia, therefore there is no longer any reason why the 
present species should not take the same specific name, which ap- 
pears to be the earliest one published. 
We have recently received numerous large sone er speci- 
mens from the Gulf of California, from J. Peder 
Goreonta Linn. (sens. mod.). = Gorgonia aed ‘aie smc 
gia (pars) Ehr.; Pterogorgia (pars) Dana; Leptogorgia (pars 
vin and Howes ae ee (pars), Xiphigorgia, Phyllog or- 
pies Poa an 
It has bieerne nicoeais Sot to rest this genus to those —_ 
Trans. Conn. Acad., i, p. 386, 1868). 
As thus limited the species known to me may be arranged thus: 
A.—Flabelliform, branches reticulated and coalescent, with open meshes, (Rhi- 
oe ain 
G. flabellum Linn. Bermudas; Florida; West Indies. 
G. pions (Val.) V. Gua dalou upe. 
B.—Plumose or panicled; the branches rent fs ogee usually long and slen- 
der, with the cells in rows along the sides, (typical Pte 
G. acerosa Pallas. (G. setosa Linn., Ed. xii). Bermudas; 
Florida; West Indies 
G. turgida (Ehr. v. Florida; Burmudas; West Indi 
G. Americana Gm. (P. El lisiana E. and H.). Florida; West 
Indies. 
G. Sloanei (2) (E. and H.) V. West Indi 
G. setosa (? Linn. pars, non Esper). West  tridios 
C.—Flabelliform; the branches bipinnate, sparingly coalescent, flatte 
G. bipinnata V. Boel Sed bipinnata V., Bulletin M. re Z., p- 
Cumana, V; | 
87, 1864). 
D.—Dichotomous, with ae, slender branches. a 
G. enereectee Raa (Leptogorgia miniacea E. and 
. tenella V. ‘oe ceratophyta Esper, tab. xix, non Linn. 
nec Pallas). 
nbc ae v (Peers orgia, Trans. Conn. Acad., vol. i, p. 359 
- 1868), Abrolh 
