WORMS. ZOOPHYTA. 95. Gorgonia. 



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TeSinata. Round, with parallel afcentling fnnple branches inclining 

 the fame way : bark red, with gibbous fcattered pores : 

 bone white, hard, brittle. 

 Seba Muf. 3 tab. lO^'^l a, 



Snlavdet & Ellis Coral, p. 85. ». 9. 



Inhabits the East Indies: branches all from one fide. 



Abittina. Branched and fubdivided : bark yellow with rows of purple 

 florets each fide: bon^i horny, vellowifh. 

 Solandei and Ellis Cor all. p 9$. n. 23. tab. 16, 

 Plukenet Amaltb tab. 452 / 3. 



Inhabits Africa ; a^-out a toot high, and often covered with fmaft 

 hernac^es: flat, with the older r, ranches irregular, the younger 

 ones pinnate like the bertularia abietina. 



Caljculata. Branched and fubdivided, with erecl thick ramifications 

 covered with truncate papillae : fleih cinereous without 

 and purplith within, iurniih.d with lar^e cup-fhaped 

 florets: bone dark brown, horny 

 Inhabits — —-Solander and Ellis Car all. p. 95. n. 21. 



Briarw, With very few thicker branches and dilated bafe: fiefh pale 

 grey without and whitiih within : bone compofed of 

 fmall purple glaiTy needles irregularly and ciofely dif- 

 pofed longitudinally. 



Solander and Eliis Ccrall. p. 93 n 20. tab, 14. Jig. I, 2. 



Inhabits the West Indies; refembles an Alcyonium. 



Florets large, prominent, numerous and lrregu.arly difpofea. 



VeKtalina< Reticulate, wjth the branches compreifed externally at the 

 fides: bark red. 

 Rumpf. Amb, 6. p. 205. tab. 89. fig. I. 

 Inhabits the Indian Ocean : black or brown. 



Reticulum* Reticulate, with ycry clofe-fct round ramifications and red 

 tubcrculate bark. 

 Seba Muj. 3. tab. 105, n. l6 tab. 107. «. 6. 

 Inhabits the Indian Ocean: very ponderous, grey* 



Cletbrus. Reticulate, woody, with round ramifications and fmooth 

 bark covered with fimpie pores. 

 [ Pallas el. Zoopb. p 168. n- 103. 



Inftdbits --near 2 palms high: pale with a thin red di lb -grey 



bark. 



Flabellum Reticulate, with the branches comprcfTed on the inner fide; 

 bar*, yellow or purplim ; bone biack, horny an J Jiightiy 



Fenus's Fan. 



4N 2 



firiate on the larger branches. 



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