ZOOPHYTES. 



PLATE CXXVI. 



GORGONIA SULPHUREA 

 SULPHUR-COLOURED 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 barkj and becoming spongy and friable when dry. 

 Mouths covering the surface of the stem polypiferous. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Entirely yellow, subdichotomous, much branched ; ^orets 

 crowded, somewhat conic, and gaping. 



GoRGONiA SuLPHUREA : flava tota subdichotoma, ramossissima, 

 floribus confertis subconicis hiantibus. 



. A native of the Brasilian sea, where it was discovered some 

 years ago by an assiduous and intelligent collector of Natural 



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