WORMS. ZOOPHYTA. 95. Gorgonia. 



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Seba Muf. 3- tab. !0$. n. I. a. 



Inhabits the American Ijlands, adhering to (tones: about 3 feet 

 iong, and very flexible when alive. 



Flammea. ComprefTed, branched and fubdivided : bone flat, horny: 

 flefh fcarlet, covered with minute florets. 

 Solander and Ellis Coral/, p. 80. n. 2. tab. 11. 

 Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope: bright flame-colour. 



Fan fhaped, fubreticulate, with numerous round divergent 

 branches : flefh reddifh, covered with florets. 



Solander and Ellis CoralL p. 80, n. 1. tab. 10. 



Inhabits the Indian Ocean: item fho-rt, rifing from abroad bafe, 

 fending forth 2 or 3 thick branches, from which proceed many 

 long flende* {mailer ones all tending to the cucumference and 

 united here and there by lefier fide ones, forming a kind of 

 net-work. 



Subdichotomons, with divaricate flender branches : flefh 

 violet, covered with minute tubercles. 

 Pallas eh Zooph. p. 1 87. n. 1 1 8. 



Inhabits South America: round, fmooth, blackifh, the ends of the 

 branches yellow. 



Dichotomous, round, with divaricate flender branches : 

 flefh red, with numerous hairy florets. 

 Rump/. Amb. 6. p. 223. tab. 83. 



Inhabits the Indian Ocean • a foot long : black, horny, and fre- 

 queutly found with bernacles adhering to it. 



ima. 



"ofa» 



Flat, with numerous very long fimple d.ivifions : flefh 

 fmooth, with fcattered fimple pores. 

 Pallas el. Zooph. p, 189, n. 120. 



Inhabits the Indian Ocean; 2-6 feet long: brown, horny, co- 

 vered with a calcareous coat*, and flexile. 



Very much branched, corky, with very minute fcattered 

 pores, and many-cleft at the bafe. 

 Seba Muf. 3 tab. 106. n. 6. 



Inhabits African feas : fubdichotomous, grey, of the fubitance 

 and appearance of cork, with a branched trunk 2 inches high. 



Woody, very much branched, difFufe, the branches compref- 

 fed& grooved, & covered with fubftellate fcattered pores, 

 Ellis CoralL p. 64. /, 26, fig. P, Q. Soland.l$ Ellis, p. 93. n. 19. 

 Turgot Mem. In fir. tab, 23 fig:, C. 



Inhabits India and Africa; near 3 feet high : flefh red, fpongy : 

 bone pale- red, corky: branches long, round, ereft. 



Cora/kides, 



