SUBORDER n.— ALCYONARIA. 
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49. Gorgonta flavida {Lamarck). — Yellow; crowded cespitose, subpin= 
nate ; branchlets terete, numerous ; polyps crowdedly scattered, cortex thick, 
not verrucose. 
West Indies. — >S'e&cf, Mauger. 
50. Gorgonia elongata (Pallas). — Reddish; very tall (often four feet); 
branches few, dichotomous, very long, short verrucose ; axis pale. 
West Indies. — Ellis, Esper. 
51. Gorgonia juncea (Pallas). — Color subminiaceous; stem quite simple, 
very long, terete ; surface crowdedly short-verrucose. 
Indian Ocean, Pallas, Esper.— AmhoynR, Seba. 
52. Gorgonia suffruticosa (Dana). Ash-colored; fruticulose, very 
crowdedly ramulous; branches and branchlets flexuous and irregular, mostly 
terete, some nodose; branchlets one-half to one and a half inches long and 
one line thick ; cortex rather thick, smooth, with punctiform oscules, minute 
and throughout crowdedly scattered ; polyps quite small, yellowish, with the 
tentacles fringed and short. 
Plate 59, fig. 7, part of zoophyte, natural size ; 7 a, polyp, enlarged ; 7 a^„ 
same, natural size. — The Feejee Islands, Mathuata reefs. — E.xp. Exp. 
53. Gorgonia kamulosa (Ehrenherg.) Dana. — Yellow; eight inches high 
and five broad, erect, dichotomous; branches virgate, densely subveiticillate, 
with simple or sparingly divided branchlets, nearly an inch long, and one line 
thick ; surface densely polypiferous, smooth, with the oscules like minute points. 
West Indies. — Ehrenherg. 
54. Gorgonia spicifera (Dana). — Ash-colored; eight inches high, sub- 
dichotomous; branches on all sides densely ramulous, with simple, rigid 
branchlets, to 2 inches long and nearly a line thick, terete, finely, crowd- 
edly, and obsolescently verrucose; axis fuscous, cortex rather thick. 
West Indies (?). — Boston Soc. JVat. Hist. 
55. Gorgonia trichostemma (Dana). Browm, summits fiesh-colored ; 
I low, and sparingly ramose in a plane; branches coarsely nodulous, one to 
three lines thick ; polyps few, very distant, tentacles long fimbriate, tlie pa- 
pillaa being capillary and recurved; verrucas irregularly tuberculiform, some- 
I what alternate, stout, suberose, above obsolescent. 
Plate 59, fig. 3, natural size, polyps expanded; 3a, one of the polyps, en- 
larged; 3 6, a papilla, more enlarged. — Feejee Islands, in ten fathoms. — Exp. 
Exp. 
! 56. Gorgonia exserta (Ellis). Whitish ; low, sparingly ramose ; 
I branches alternate, a line thick; polyps few, and three or four lines remote, 
: alternate ; verrucse tuberculiform, but little prominent, a line broad ; axis cor- 
neous, fuscous. 
' American Seas. — Ellis. 
