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apart, and are united at intervals of one-half to two inches by Hexuous branch- 
lets ; branches and braiichlets one to one and a half lines thick, every where 
small verrucose. 
30. Gorgonia venusta {Band). — Red or ochreous ; flabellate and much 
reticulate, spaces often three lines long, but usually very much larger; 
branchlets terete, one line thick ; cortex thick, and throughout entirely 
smooth ; oscules scattered. 
East Indies, Esper. — Isle of France, J. S. Phillips. 
31. Gorgonia stricta {Lamarck). — Red, flabellate, subreticulate, branches 
crowded and close, lateral branchlets short, and rather spreading ; polypiferous 
granules minute, much crowded ; cortex thin. 
32. Gorgonia retellum {Lamarck). — Whitish; flabellate, subreticulate; 
lateral branchlets short, subtransverse, granulous, 
Indian Ocean — Lamarck. 
33. Gorgonia tamarix {Ehrenherg). Isabella yellow; a little higher 
than broad ; much branched, slender, subflabellate; branches flexuous, thin, 
short, setaceous, subreticulate, but mostly free ; margin of the summit branch- 
lets crenated, owing to slightly prominent verrucse. 
34. Gorgonia tuberculata {Esper ‘^) Lamarck. Yellowish; flabellate, 
subreticulate, ramose, very large; branchlets lax, tortuous, often coalescing; 
tubercles scattered, unequal. 
Mediterranean Sea. 
35. Gorgonia granulata {Ehrenherg). Yellowish ; flabellate, higher 
than broad (nine inches by four), much branched, subreticulate, slender, 
branches fragile, branchlets three-fourths of a line thick, verrucose ; verrucee 
one-third of a line broad, and one-fourth high; axis fuscous. 
36. Gorgonia f-ly.xxj os a {Lamarck). — Orange; flabellate, much branched, 
branches and branchlets dichotomously divaricate, flexuous, remotely coales- 
cing, verrucose. 
Indian Ocean. — Esper, Lamarck. 
37. Gorgonia verrucosa. — Whitish, flabellate, about six inches high 
and broad, loosely and sparingly ramose ; branches flexuous, one to one and 
a quarter lines thick, rarely coalescing, verrucose, verrucae one-half to two- 
thirds of a line broad. 
Mediterranean, and seas of America. 
38. Gorgonia apiculata {Ehrenherg,) Dana. Ash-colored; flabellate, 
three inches high and five broad ; very densely ramulous, branches and 
branchlets nearly parallel, sometimes coalescing, often free, cne-half a line 
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