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SUBORDER II. ALCYONARIA. 
74. Gorgonia penna {Lamarck), — Whitish, eight to ten inches high, lax- 
ramose, complanate ; brandies furcate, pinnate, pinnules distichous, crowded, 
filiform, surface remotely verrucose, verrucse ascending, bifarious. 
From New Holland . — Peron ^ Lesueiir. 
75. Gorgonia moniliformis [Lamarck.) — Whitish, simple, filiform, erect j 
verrucse prominent, umbilicate at apex, somewhat scattered ; cortex very thin. 
From New Holland. 
76. Gorgonia coccinea (Lamouroux). Ramose; branches short, scat- 
tered, chladoniiform ; cortex scarlet. 
Australian seas. 
77. Gorgonia rhizomorpha [Lamouroux). — Ramose; branches scattered, 
elongate, like the fibres of a root; cortex brown, axis subcorneous. 
Near Bayonne. 
78. Gorgonia alba (Lamarck). — ^Ramose; subcompressed; branches sub- 
pinnate, erect; branchlets terete; cortex white, oscules scattered. 
Subgenus III.— MURICEA. 
Verrncose, in the retracted state of the polyps, the verrucse 
armed with spicula or scales, and not movable. 
Arrangement of the Species. 
I. Verrucis spiculo-armatis. 
79. G. Mur. spicifera. 
80. G. Mur. elongata. 
II. Verrucis squamulo-armatis. 
83. G. Mur. verticiilaris. 84. G. Mur. myura. 
79. G. Mdricea spicifra [Lamouroux). — Pale, a foot high; fruticose, 
with the branches much compressed and three to four lines broad, and branch- 
lets subcompressed ; surface crowdedly covered with armed subimbricate ver- 
rucsB ; axis black, throughout very much flattened and two-edged, axils broad. 
West Indies. ^ 
80. G. Muricea elongata [Lamouroux). — Sulphur-yellow; a foot high; 
fruticulose, ramulons, but not in a plane ; branchlets nearly terete, one and a 
half lines broad, obtuse, elongate, verrucose; verrucas much crowded, imbri- 
cate, scarcely a line long. 
West Indies. 
81. G. Mur. placomus. 
82. G. Mur. cerea. 
