ZOOPHYTES. 



PLATE CXIV. 



GORGONIA CEIIATOPHYTA var FLAVA 

 FILIFORM GORGONIA, YELLOW 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, eacli marked with 

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

 bone black and horny. 



