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[Phxaura,.'] 
57. Gorgonia antipathes. — Very large (three feet); paniciilato-ramose, 
branches terete ; cortex thick, smooth ; oscules large ; axis black, flexuously 
striate, of branchlets setiform, of base often one to two inches thick. 
58. Gorgonia homomalla (Esper). — Much branched ; branches terete, di- 
chotomous, ascending and somewhat nodding: cortex thick, oscules scattered. 
Mediterranean? Esper. — West Indies, Lamarck. 
59. Gorgonia anguiculus {Dana). Fulvous ; ramose dichotomous ; 
branches terete, branchlets one and a half to two lines thick, long; surface 
scarcely smooth, a little pitted ; oscules very much crowded, nearly circular, 
quite small ; axis fuscous, of the branchlets very slender ; axils compressed. 
West Indies.. 
60. Gorgonia olivacea (Lamouroux,) Lamarck. Much branched ; 
branches scattered or subpinnate ; branchlets one to one and a half lines 
thick; cortex thick, olivaceous, oscules scattered. 
East Indies. — Lamouroux. 
61. Gorgonia quincuncialis {Ehj’cnherg,) Dana. — Dark ash or reddish; 
two feet high; dichotomously branched, branches suberect, flexuous, crowded, 
one and a half lines thick at summits, terete; surface a little verrucose (and 
therefore rough), verrucas appressed, opening upward, two-thirds of a line 
long, and about one-third of a line broad ; axis fuscous. 
West Indies. 
62. Gorgonia dichotoma {Esper). — Furcato-dichotomous, two feet high, 
axils arcuate ; branches terete, slightly attenuated ; branchlets often a foot 
long, two to three lines thick ; oscules linear, numerous ; cortex a line thick, 
axis wood-brown and not flexible. 
dichotomous ; branches erect, long, terete ; above nearly two to three lines 
thick; surface smooth, oscules large and round; axis black, axils not com- 
pressed. 
West Indies ? East Indies ? — Lamarck. 
64. Gorgonia crassa {Ellis ). — Sparingly ramose, dichotomous, branches 
five to six lines thick, and often five inches long, nearly cylindrical; surface 
nearly smooth, oscules scattered, large and round, under margin sometimes 
prominent; axis corneous, pale fuscous. 
West Indies.— 
Indian Ocean. 
W est Indies. 
63. Gorgonia vermiculata {Lamarck). — Ramose, one 
