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65. Gorgonia papillosa [Esper). Whitish or yellowish ; flabellate, 
branches flexuous or incurved, upper branchlets mostly two to two and three- 
fourths lines thick ; surface crowdedly verrucose, verrucee three-fourths of a 
line long and half a line broad. 
West Indies ? 
66. Gorgonia clavaria (Lamouroux,) Edwards. — Somewhat fuscous ; ra- 
mose, very stout; branches subterete, clavato-elorigate, five to ten lines thick; 
verrucag unequal, aperture one line broad. 
West Indies. 
67. Gorgonia pseudo-antipathes {Lamarck). — Somewhat fuscous; one 
foot in height; ramose, dichotomous; branches ascending, four to five lines 
thick, terete, not attenuate ; surface of cortex verrucose, verruca3 stout, one 
line long, and tvvo-thirds broad, opening upward, outer lip prolonged and often 
a little incurved. 
West Indies. 
68. Gorgonia madrepora {Dana). — Pale, five inches high ; sparingly ra- 
mose ; branches four to five lines thick, elongate, with the surface strongly 
verrucose, verrucse numerous, subcylindrical, standing nearly erect upon the 
surface, three-quarters of aline thick, and one to one and a quarter long; 
cortex very thick; the corneous axis hardly a line broad, black. 
West Indies. — Philad. Acad. JVat. Sci. 
69. Gorgonia plantaginea {Lamarck). — Fuscous; ramose, stout, erect; 
branches terete, echinulate ; cortex spongy, verrucas conical, erect, much 
crowded. 
West Indies.^ — Lamarck. 
70. Gorgonia lima {Lamarck). — Whitish; ramose, dichotomous; branch- 
lets two and a half lines thick ; verrucose, verrucas slender, very densely 
crowded ; axis corneous, black, compressed at the axils. 
West Indies. — Tournefort, Lamarck. 
71. Gorgonia mammosa {Lamouroux,) Edwards. — Eight inches; ramose? 
subdichotomous ; verrucae terete, one to three lines long, imbricate. 
West Indies. 
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72. Gorgonia purpurea {Pallas). — Violaceous, subdichotomous, branches 
divaricate, virgate, subverrucose. 
73. Gorgonia Richardii {Lamouroux). Yellowish, much branched ; 
branches scattered or sublateral, a little flabellate; axis irregular, sometimes 
compressed, suberose, white ; cortex thin, verrucae conical, half a line high. 
West Indies. 
