GORGON I A. 



Placomus. Branching both way:, with flexiious, and 

 rarely uniting or anaftomoiing branches, covered with conic 

 florets. Linn Warkd-feA-fan, EUis. Lithoxylon, &;c. Breyn. 



Height two feet ; ilem ered, woody, and yellow, fcarlet 

 or reddifh cinereous. Inhabits the Indian and European 

 feas. 



MoLLLS. Coriaceous, dicholomous, with perpendicular 

 tubular florets. Pallas. 



Native of the Mediterranean, and about eighteen inches 

 in height, the colour brown violet ; ftem brown ; branches 

 long and (lender. 



SucciNE.\. Round, amber-colour, dichotomous, rigid, 

 the ilem covered with tubercular gaping florets. Pallas. 



A very rare fpecies, tlie native place of which is unknown ; 

 it is only fix inches high, the ftem teftaceous. 



Ameiuc.in.a. Branched and fub-divided, the fub-divi- 

 fions nearly oppofite, comprelTcd, with rows of polypife- 

 rous cells on each margin ; fle(h yellowilh, within pale pur- 

 ple ; bone horny. Gmel. Gorgonia p'lnnata, Soland. and 

 Ellis. 



Native of the Well Indies ; flefh purplifh or yellow- 

 i(h. 



E.x.sERTA. Round, with a few alternate branches ; flo- 

 rets alternate, eight -valved ; flelh covered with minute white 

 fcales ; bone brownifh, horny. Soland. 



Height two feet; branches long, flender, and white ; po- 

 lypes witli eight feelers and exferted. Inhabits the Weft In- 

 dies. 



Patul A. Comprefled, with flexuous fub-pinnate branches, 

 crimfon, with two rows of florets each fide, each furround- 

 ed with a whitifli ring : bone brownifli, horny. Soland. 



Native of the Mediterranean. 



Ceratoi'iivta. Branched, with divaricate ereft fub- 

 diviiions, each marked with two furrows ; florets white, 

 in irregular rows ; flefli purple ; bone black and horny. 

 Gorgonia ceratophyta, Soland. CoraU'ma fruticofa purpurea, 

 C. Bauh. LUhophylon, isfc. Gefn. Corallina j'ruUcofa erec- 

 tior, Catefby. 



Found in the Mediterranean, Atlantic, and South 

 American feas ; height twelve inches ; flelh bright pur- 

 ple. 



JuscEA. Stem fimple, round, and tapering both ways ; 

 boneduflvy, horny ; flefh orange-colour, with two furrows ; 

 florets longifh. Soland. &c. Junci lapidei, Plin. Falmjun- 

 c'j£ alius, Rumpf. 



Inhabits t!ie fhores of the American iflands adhering to 

 flones ; height about three feet, and very flexible when 

 ahve. 



Fl..\MMEA. ComprefTed, branched, and fub-pitwiatcd ; 

 bone flat and horny ; flcfh bright red, with minute florets. 

 Soland. and Ellis. 



A beautiful fpecies, of a fiery red or flame-colour 

 when recent ; this kind inhabits the African coall, and ap- 

 pears to be found in moll abundance near the Cape of Good 

 Hope. 



UMBnACtiLUM. Fan-fliapcd, and fomewhat reticulated : 

 brandies numerous, divergent and round ; flelh icddilh, 

 warted or covered with florets. Soland. and Ellis. 



Native of tlie Indian fea ; ftem ft^ort, rifing from a broad 

 bafe, divided into about two or three branches, the fmallor 

 ones rifing from which are numerou.'i, andfo intimately con- 

 jiefted as to form a kind of net-work. 



Pi;hi'vhk.\. Somewhat dichotomous, with divaricated 

 fiender branches ; flelh violet and fub-verrucofo. Pallas. 



Round, finooth and blackifti, with the extremities of the 

 branches yellow. A South American fpecies. 



Vol, XVI. 



Sa.sappo. Sub-dichotomous, round, with divaricated 

 flender branches ; flelh red, with numcrou'! hairy riuretc. 

 Pallas. Accarhaar fafappof. •virga/anguinca, Rumpf. 



About twelve inches in length, the texture horny, and 

 colour black. The bemacle is frequently obfervtd adlieririg 

 to this fpecies. 



Pal.ma. Flat, with numerous very long ?nd fimple di- 

 vifions ; flefli fmooth, fprinkled with firijpk- pores. Palla». 

 Chamitr'tpha pirfgrina, Clufius. 



Grows to the height of fix feet, though more commonly 

 not exceeding two or tiirce feet ; the fubltance hornv, cover- 

 ed with a calcareous coating, and flexible. Inhabits the In- 

 dian ocean. 



Radicat.\. Very much branched, and corkv ; with 

 minute fcattered pores, and many-cLft at the bafe. Palla«, 

 Seba, &c. 



Native of the African feas ; fub-dichotomous, grey, 

 with branched trunk, and in fubllance refembling 

 cork. 



SuBEno.<iA. Woody, very much branched, dilTufe, the 

 branches comprelTed and grooved, and covered with fubllcl- 

 lated fcattered pores. Pallas. 



Height three feet ; flefli rod, fpongy ; bone pale red and 

 corky; branches long, round and erect. Found in the In- 

 dian and African feas. 



CoRALLOiDE.s. Woody, crcft, fub-dichotomous, and 

 varioufly formed ; flelh tuberous, with Itellated tuber- 

 culated florets. Pallas. Corallina lignum incrujlani, 

 Bocc. 



Native of the Mediterranean ; length one foot, very 

 tough, pale grey, with yellow florets. 



Eloxgat.\. Dichotomous, divaricated, with the flelh red, 

 and covered with papillous fcattered fub-imbricated pores. 

 Gmel. &c 



Pale and brittle, with fquare branches with pores at the 

 angles ; grows to the height of four feet, and inhr^bits iIk? 

 Atlantic. 



SciRPEA. Very fimple, ftraight, with a decompo. 

 fite leafy bafe, and foft tuberculattd flelh. Pallas. 



Fufcous, tapering towards the tip ; the flefh cinereous when 

 dry ; inhabits the Indian feas. 



Set.vcea. Simple, rigid, with calcareous white fub- 

 tuberculated flelh. Pallas. Tftdis plocamuw, Mercal. 



Native of the American ocean. 



Vl.MlNAl.Is. Very Ijng, deprefTed, branched, withrrci?t 

 fub-divifions ; flelh yellow ; florets feated along each mar- 

 gin of the branches, and rather prominent. Pallas. IjiJit 

 plocamum II. &c. Mercat. 



Height eight inches ; brarchcs long and flender ; bone 

 blackilli and horny ; florets white ; the polype fiimilheJ 

 with eight feelers or claws. Native of the Atlantic and 

 Mediterranean. 



Ml'FUCWTA. Round, with deprefled fub-diviJcd branches ; 

 flrlh thick ; pores cyhndrici! Piid fpinous. Pallas, EUis, 

 &c. Epieorailum, &c. Petiv. I.ilhopkyton. Tournef. 



Native of the American iflands; height from two to 

 three feet ; coriaceous, horny, with a whitifli medullar)- 

 nerve. 



VrnRfCOSA. Bifarious, with round, fub-Jichotomous 

 flexuous branche.s ; fielti calcareous, pores whitilh and pro- 

 minent. Pallas, Ellis, &c. I.ilhophyton marinum, Gefn. 

 Corallina alba nodo/a, C. Bauh. Fralix nuirinus Jl,ibtllifi.nnis, 

 Sec. Ray. Erica marina, &.c. Petiv. 



Inhabits the Weft Indian, Mediterranean, and rarely the 



Britilh feas, adhering by the broad bafe of the principal 



trunk to the rocks, and rifing to the height of twelve or 



3 O fifteen 



