A. E. Verrill—Radiata from the Coast of N. Carolina. 483 
of an inch apart, and generally not more than % to 1 inch 
long before dividing. The branches are rather stout, terete or 
aig arg usually but little crooked. The branchlets are 
‘20 of an inch; of the branchlets, 05 to ‘07. 
The spicula of the coenenchyma are light red, and consist of 
minute “double-spindles” of several degrees of stoutness, but 
mostly rather short, thick, and blunt. The largest and stoutest 
ones are 096™™ by -042, -096 by ‘036, 090 by 048; they have 
a very narrow naked median zone, and two close whorls and a 
terminal cluster of rough warts on each end; many other 
smaller and shorter ones have but one whorl and a terminal 
cluster of warts. The most slender ones are small and acute 
In the largest specimen four main branches of nearly equal 
Size spring directly from the base. 
Leptogorgia setacea Verrill. 
Corgonia setacea Pallas, Elenchus Zoéph., p. 182, 1756 (non Dana). 
Xiphs gia simplex Val., Comptes-rendus, xli, p. 13. 
phigorgia setacea Kaw. and Haime, Coralliaires, vol. i, p. 172, 1857. 
Aa. Jour. So.—Tamp Serres, Vou. III, No. 18.—Jung, 1872. 
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