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Danielssenia n. gen. 
Corals of the genus of the Gorgonia, KoUiker. The trunk without 
branches. The base expanded adherent. The polyps in single series 
on each side of the trunk. The polypcells low, broad, swelled in 
the basal part, partly embracing the stem. Axis corneous, non- 
calcareous, smooth, round. The sarcosoma comparatively thick. The 
oesophagus and the gastralfilaments of the polyps without spicules, 
the entire coral otherwise abounding in spicules, especially spindles, 
clubs and double-stars. 
Danielssenia irramosa n. sp. 
Tab. III fig. 33, IV, VI. 
The Spicules in the sarcosoma have, in general, the form of 
long, pointed, nodulous spindles and straight clubs; in the polypcell 
the spicules are principally pointed spindles and double-stars; the 
posterior part of the polyp is furnished with double-spheres and 
spindles; the anterior part of the polyp with long, pointed, curved 
spindles and fusiform spicules with a smooth band abov^e the middle. 
In the posterior part of the polyp the spicules are dispersed in all 
directions; between the posterior and anterior part there is a stripe 
of transversally placed spicules, in the anterior part they lie length- 
wise in eight rows, that pass over to the aboral surface of the ten- 
tacles. The polyps are retractile, 1.2 mm. long; their posterior part 
cylindrical, smooth, white, with white spicules. The anterior part 
bell-shaped, grooved lengthwise. The tentacles white, shorter than 
the polypbody, their aboral surface and the pinnula abound in white 
spicules. The oesophagus short, without spicules. The colour of 
the sarcosoma, polypcells and anterior part of the polyps red, with 
lightred spicules. The axis nutbrown, 0,3 mm. broad. 
Paramuricea elegans n. sp. 
Tab. V, VII fig. I — 18. 
The trunk sparingly branched, rough. The arrangement of the 
branches is like that of the Paramuricea borealis Verrill. The po- 
lypcells, abound in spicules, are short, cylindrical, about as broad as 
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