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the brighteft colored of all this genus, not unlike fire ; 

 but the flefh as it becomes dry is apt to fall from the bone; 

 the main ftems grow up a little, waving as they tend to- 

 wards the tops. The mouths are oblong ; they are larger 

 and fewer on the main ftems, than on the fmall fide 

 branches, where they are in great abundance, 



3. Gorgonia juncea. Rujh-like Gorgon. 



Gorgonia Jtmplicifftma This Gorgon has a fingle 



teres utrinque attenuate round ftem, fmaller at each 

 ojje corneo fufco^ came end. The bone is of a dark- 

 ochracea bifulcata^ ofculis colored horny confidence ; 

 crebris linear ibus not at a* this is covered with an orange- 



. colored flefh, full of longifh 

 little mouths. 



This orange-colored Sea-Whip was found by Mr. Greg 

 in the new ceded iflands, growing on a fhell, and is very 

 flexible when alive, and about three feet long. There 

 are two fmall furrows, one on each fide, which are con- 

 tinued the whole length of the animal : thefe are the 

 tubes, funk in, with which the fuckers and mouths did 

 communicate, when the animal was alive. 



4. Gorgonia ceratophyta. Horned GorgQ7iia.» Tab. 12, 



Fig. 2, 



Gorgonia dicbot@ma y This Gorgon grows in a fub- g. 



axillis divaricatis, ramis divided manner; the branches 



virgatis afcendentibus bi- fland afunder, and grow eredt, 



fulcatiS) came purpurea , like twigs. Thefe have two 



polypis niveis o&otentacu- furrows on them ; their flefh 



latis dijliche fparfisy ojfe is of a purple color, and their 



atro corneo fuffidt a, polypes fnow white, having 



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