ZOOPHYTES. 



PLATE CXV. 



GORGONIA CERATOPHYTA var RUBRA 

 FILIFORM GORGONIA red var. 



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. Polypiferous. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 

 AND 

 SYNONYMS. 



Branched, with divaricate erect subdivisions, each marked with 

 two furrows : florets white, in irregular rows : flesh purple, 

 (or yellow) bone black or horny. 



Gorgon I A Ceratophyta : subdichotoma, axillis divaricatis, 

 ramis virgitas bisulcatis, cortice rubro (vel flavo) 

 poris bifariis. 



