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broad; vorrucss conically acute, one-fourth to one-third of aline high, and 
broad, crowded. 
39. Gorgonfa nivea (Eh'enherg,) Dana. Snow-white ; flabellate, six 
inches, branchlets flexuous, opposite or alternate, subcornpressed, one line 
thick' at apex, with the verrucse scattered, ’rather large, a line broad, and half 
a line high. 
40. Gorgonia flammea {Ellis). — Scarlet or purple; very large; arbores- 
cently flabellate, lax ramose, subpinnate, branches compressed, branchlets one 
and a half to two lines broad, not verrucose, polyps scattered. 
Cape of Good Hope. 
41. GorgOxXia virgulata {Lamarck). — Bright yellow, orange, or crimson, 
sparingly ramose and often nodding; branches long, (often a foot or more 
long,) even virgate, one to one and a half lines thick, often obsoletely com- 
pressed ; polyps crowded, sometimes subseriate, verrucas none, oscules minute 
and linear. 
West Indies. 
43. Gorgonia sanguine a {Lamarck). Purple ; ramose, subfastigiate ; 
^ranches erect, tereto-setaceous, polyps of the branchlets subseriate, of the 
branches every where scattered ; axis nearly black. * 
Isle of France. 
44. Gorgonia graminea {Lamarck). — Whitish; ramose, branches erect, 
subfasciculate, slender, terete, rush-like; pores oblong, scattered. 
Mediterranean Sea.- — Lamarck. 
45. Gorgonia Bertolonii {Lamouroux). — Whitish; near the virgulata 
in habit, branches closely collected together, long and often nodding, rather 
stouter (one and a half lines), terete, and every where subverrucose. 
Mediterranean Sea. 
46. Gorgonia sasappo {Pallas). — Red ; sparingly ramose ; branches terete, 
long virgate, often five inches long and nodding, close dichotomous, one and 
a half lines thick, surface every where subpilose and very slightly verrucose, 
polyps crowded, ihroughout scattered. 
Indian Ocean. — Pallas, Esper. 
47. Gorgonia humilis {Dana ). — Whitish; two to three inches high, and 
short fruticulose, with the branches cro^X^ded, flexible, branchlets short (one to 
six lines), one and one-third lines thick, not attenuate, surface verruculose, 
polyps crowdsdly scattered. 
West Indies ? 
48. Gorgonia furcata {Lamarck). — White ; low, lax ramose, dichoto- 
mous; branches terete, slender, variously curved, obsoletely verrucose. 
The Mediterranean (?). — Lamarck. 
