ZOOPHYTES. 



PLATE CXXI. 



GORGONIA FLAMMEA 

 FIERY-RED GORGONIA 



Zoophytes. 



generic character. 



Animal growing in the form of a plant : stem coriaceous, corky, 

 woody, horny, bony, or testaceous, composed of glassy fibres, or like 

 stones, striate, tapering, dilated at the base, covered with a vascular 

 or cellular flesh or bark, and becoming spongy and friable when dry . 

 Mouths covering the surface of the stem pol3^piferous. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 

 AND 

 SYNONYMS. 



Compressed, ramose and somewhat pinnate 5 bone flat, horny ; 

 flesh scarlet, covered with minute mouths, 



GoRGONiA Flammea : compressa ramosa subpinnato, osse com- 

 planato, corneo came miniata osculis creberrimis 

 parvis notata. Soland. and Ellis Coral, /?. 80; 

 n.2. t 11. 



Gorgonia Flammea : GineL Syst^ Nat. L 1. p. 6. 380L 21. 



