WORMS. ZOOPHYTA. 95. Gorgonuu 645 



95. GORGONI4. Animal growing in the 

 form of a plant: Jlem coriaceous, corky, 

 woody, horny, or bony, compofed of 

 glaffy fibres, or like ftone, ftriate, taper- 

 ing, dilated $t the bafe, covered with a 

 vaicular or cellular flelh or bark, and 

 becoming fpongy and friable when dry: 

 mouths or Jlorets covering the furfa.ce of 

 the item and polype-bearing. 



Lepadifera pichotomous ? with crowded imbricate reflects! companu- 

 late mouths or florets. 



Solander and Ellis Corall. p. 84. n. 8, tab. 1 3. fig. I ? 2. 



Pontopp. Noriv. 1 p*2$2. tab, i 3. jig., j j f 



Gunner. Aft. Nidros. 2. p. 321 . tdb. 9. 



Cluf. Eycot. 122. tab. 123. Befi. Muf. tab. 24. 



B after op. fubf. 2. p. 130. tab. i^ fig. I. 



Inhabits the Norway Seat; near 2 feet high : fiefii pale, covered 

 with minute wbitiih fcales ; ficrets covered with white imbricate 

 fcales, and have th'- appearance of fmall Bernacles : Hem white 

 with a flony bafe and cartilaginous branches, 



Verticilla- pinnate, branched,, with alternate parallel fubdiyifions 

 r; f* covered with yerticillate incurved florets. 



Ellis Corall. p. 60. tab. 26. fig. S, T, V. 

 So/and. and Ellis Corall. p. 83. n. 7. 

 Mar/. Hi ft. Mar. p. 101 tab. 20. fig 94 — 96. 

 Inhabits the Mediterranean and North Seas: 2 — 3 feet high; 

 Stem very brittle, white or yellowifh, compofed of layers of a 

 mining pearly fhellylubftance : fiejh covered with white glafly 

 fcales: branches flexile. 



iPIacomuu Branching both ways, with flexuous rarely anaftornofing 

 branches covered with ponic florets, 

 Ellis Corall. p. 67. tab 27. fig a A- A r. A 2. A 3. 

 Solander and Ellis Corall '. p. 86. «. iq. 

 Gunner Act. Vidros 5. p. I. tab. \. 



Breyn. prodr. 3. tab. 29. %7. CV*<w;. p.ll%. tah.f. u 

 Marf, flifi. Mar. p. 93. tab. 1 j. p. 1 $y. tab. 35, f. 171. 

 Pontopp. Hiji. Nornv. 1. p. 273. tab. 1 1 . n. 2, 3. 

 Inhabits European and Indian feas ; 2 feet high. 

 S/m erect, woody, yellow, fcarlet, reddifh or cinereous : branches 

 flattifh, bending irregularly towards each other and rarely 

 uniting : ficrets furrounded at the top with fmall fpines, 



Mollis^ 



