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like the foxtail-grafs. Thefe panicles are compofed of 

 very rough thorny minute branches, which are twice 

 as long on one fide of the item as the other. The out- 

 fide of this Antipathes is of greyiiri color ; the infide is 

 black and very brittle. It is near two feet high. 



This was brought from South-Carolina, and preferred 

 to Corbyn Morris, Efq. F. R.S. and has not before been 

 defcribed. 



6. Antipathes Cupreffus. Cyprejs Antipathes. 



Antipathes Jimp lex fca- This Antipathes grows in 



bra paniculata^, ramis re- the form of a fingle panicle, 

 ourvatis.- full of minute prickles, with 



the little branches bending up- 

 wards. 



Gorgonia Abies. Linn. Syft. Nat. Ed. 12. pag. 1290. 



Dr. Linnaeus has claifed this elegant fea production un- 

 der his genus of Gorgonias, to which it is very nearly al- 

 lied ; but the flefli of this tribe is fo remarkably gelati- 

 nous, and the whole bone, or hard part, . is fo covered - 

 with fpines, which even are to be diftinguifhed in the in- 

 terior laminse, that there is fufficient reafon for making it 

 of another genus. 



There is a mo ft elegant Specimen of this in the Britifti ' 

 Muieum, and very good figures of it in Rumphius and 

 Seba. It grows in the Eaft-Indian ocean among the fpice 

 ifiands. 



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