PLATE CXV. 



GoRGONiA Ceratophyta : Gmel. 3800. 6. 



Gorgon I A Ceratophyta : Horned Gorgonia. Solmid and Ellis 

 Coral p. 81. 71. 1. t. 12. f, 2. 3. 

 Seba Mus. 3 t 107. n. 3. 



The preceding plate. No. 114, was appropriated to the represen- 

 tation of the yellow variety of the Gorgonia Ceratophyta, that which 

 is figured in the present plate is the more common kind and type of 

 the species, the variety which has the flesh of a purple colour. 

 There are some slight differences between those two kinds, but 

 which are much too inconsiderable to be regarded as specifical dis- 

 tinctions. The red or purplish variety is less filiform, or slender in 

 the branches generally, than the yellow kind, but not invariably so ; 

 for we have an example now before us in which the contrary is 

 demonstrated in a most satisfactory manner ; it is, an individual 

 arising from a single stem, the branches of which are some yellow, 

 the others red, not promiscuously intermingled, but pretty equally 

 divided, all the branches of one principal limb being yellow from its 

 junction with the main stem to the utmost extremities, and those of 

 the others red, in the same manner. The Florets are white. 



After the preceding observations, it will be superfluous to add 

 that both the yellow and red variety inhabit the same seas ; they 

 are found on the shores of the Bahama Islands, and other parts of 

 the West Indian Seas. 



