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14. Antipathes pennacea. — Ramose, somewhat incurved ; pinnules muck 
crowded ; axis of the pinnules setaceous, hispid. 
Indian Ocean. — Lamarck. 
15. Antipathes scoparia {Lamarck). — Sparingly ramose, above panicu" 
lato-corymbose ; branches and branchlets long and slender ; axis of branch- 
lets filiform, finely hispid, scabrous. 
Mediterranean Sea. — Marsilli. 
16. Antipathes fceniculum (Lamarck). — Much branched, lax, subpanic- 
ulate ; axis of the branches somewhat compressed, spinous, of the terminal 
branchlets setaceous, smooth. 
East Indies (?). — Lamarck. 
17. Antipathes corticata (Lamarck). — Stem sparingly ramose, 15 inches 
in height, corticate, echinate, with numerous spines; cortex without pores. 
Indian Ocean. 
18. Antipathes lacerata (Lamarck). — Stem ramose, nearly 2 feet high, 
echinate with spiniform branchlets ; brandies sarmentose, tortuous, gradually 
attenuate ; branchlets lateral, very numerous, slender, sublacerate. 
Indian Ocean (?). — Lamarck. 
19. Antipathes pyramidata (Lamarck). — Stem rigid and undivided; 
branchlets lateral, much crowded, scattered, and pointing every way, forming 
together a pyramid, dichotomous ; axis a little shining, yellowish-olive. 
East Indies (?). — Lamarck. 
20. Antipathes Bosch (Lamouroux). — Flexuous, ramose, branches nu- 
merous and divaricate ; axis at summits setaceous. 
Shores of Carolina. — Bose. 
21. Antipathes alopecuroides (Ellis). — Ramose, branches close panic- 
ulate ; axis hispid, setaceous, brittle. 
Shores of South Carolina. — Ellis, Lamouroux. 
22. Antipathes arborea (Dana). — Arborescent, lax and spreading ra- 
mose, very large (3 feet high) ; branches subfiexuous ; axis throughout hispid, 
of branchlets, long and slender setiform, fragile ; polyps brownish-yellow, 
mouth prominent ; on branchlets, nearly in a single series. 
Plate 56, fig. 2, part of a branch, with the expanded polyps, natural size ; 
2a, polyp, enlarged; 26, part of trunk, natural size. — Sandal wmod Bay, Fee- 
jees, in ten fathoms. — Exy. Exp. 
Jlppendix. — Antipathes dichotoma (Pallas). — Antipathes glaberrima 
(Esper). 
