86 GORGONIA* 



This curious Sea-Feather has been lately introduced 

 from the Eaft Indies. There is an elegant fpecimen of it 

 in the Britifh Mufeum, lately prefented by Lord Pigot. 

 In the fpecimen which I have, there are little mouths on 

 all the branches down to the bafe : thofe on the larger 

 branches are much bigger, and project more, than thofe 

 on the erect fmall branches. 



io. Gorgonia Placomus. Great Norway Gorgon. 



Gorgonia plana dicho- This Gorgon has its branches 



toma^ ramis flexuofis ra- difpofed in a dicho tomous or- 

 rius a7taftomofantibuS) of- der and a flattifli form ; they 

 culis conicis fetaceis emi- bend irregularly towards one 

 nentibuS) ojfe fubflantid another, but rarely unite. 

 fere lignofd. Their mouths are conical, 



project, and are furrounded at 

 top by little fpines. The bone 

 or fupport is nearly of the fub- 

 ftance of wood. 



Warted Sea-Fan. Ellis Corallin. pag. 67. tab. 27. 

 fig. a. A. A 1. A 2. A3. 



Gorgonia Placomus. Linn. Syft. Nat. Ed. 12. pag. 1 290. 



This Sea-Fan is of a reddifh brown color ; it grows on 

 the coaft of Norway, to a very large fize, feveral feet high; 

 it is now and then found on the coaft of Great-Britain. 

 There is a good fpecimen of it in the Britifh Mufeum, 

 which was fent to me from Stavanger, in Norway, in the 

 year 1755. I have two varieties of this fpecies from the 

 Eaft Indies ; one very fmall, three inches long, with its 

 flefh and mouths covered with reddifh glalTy fpines ; the 

 other of a cinereous color, with its internal part very like 



the 



