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WORMS. ZOOPHYTA. 95. Gorgon w. 



Coralloidesi Woody, ere&, fubdichotomous and varioufly fhaped: flefli 

 rofy, tuberous, with ftellate tuberculate florets. 

 Bocc. Obf.Ep. tab. p. I 5. 



Inhabits the Mediterranean; near a foot long: pale grey, very 

 tough, with yellow florets. 

 1 

 Elongata. Dichotomous, divaricate, with the flefh red and covered 

 with papillous fcattered fubimbricate pores. 

 Solander and Ellis Cor all. p.%6. n. 23. 



Inhabits the Atlantic: pale, brittle, 4 feet long : branches fquare, 

 whh rows of pores at the angles. 



Sc.rpea. Very fimple, ftraight, with a decompofite leafy bafe, and 

 foft tuberculate flefli. 

 Pallas et. Zoopk. />. 1 82. »• 1 1 3. 



Inhabits the Indian fea : brown, tapering towards the tip : the 

 flefh cinereous when dry. 



Setacea. Simple, rigid, with a calcareous white fubtuberculate flefh. 

 Pallas el. Zoopb. p. l 82. n. 1 1 4. 

 Inhabits the American Ocean: blacJcifh. 



Viminalis. Very long, deprefled, branched, with erccl fubdivifions: 

 flefh yellow : florets feated along each margin of the 

 branches. 



Solander and Ellis Coralh p. 82. n. 5. tab. \2.f.\: 



Inhabits the Mediterranean and Atlantic; above a foot high: 



branches long, flender : florets white, with 8 tentacula or claws: 



bone blackifh, horny, 



Mnricata. R oun d, with deprefled fubdivided branches: flefh firm, 

 whitifh, covered with ered cylindrical fpinous florets: 

 bone 2-edged, blackifh. 

 Caiffiy Carol. 3. tab. 37. Turgot Mem. t. 23. A. 

 Solander and Ellis Corall. p.Sz. n.6. 

 Jetiv pterigr. tab. 18. fig, 9, 10. 

 Knorr Delic. tab, A. vi. n. 4. 

 Ginan. A dr. !./>• 16. tab. 10. f. 23. # 



Inhabits about the Amei ican IJlands ; 2—3 feet hign : coriaceous, 

 horny, with a white medullary nerve. 



*Verrucofa. Eifarious, with round flexuous branches and a whitifh 



calcareous bark covered with white prominent florets. 



PhiUf. TranfaSi. 44. p. 5 1 . tab 2. & 50. /. 34./, 1 9. a. 



Mar/. Hijl. Mar. p. 19. 96. 104. tab. 1 6. I 8. 21. 



Seba Muf. 3- tab. 106. n, 3. Caw/. /©/. Mar. I - M . 



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