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81. G. Muricea placomus (Lmn.,) Ehrenberg. — Cinereous or fuscouSj 
large, flabellate, much ramose; branches flexuous, sometimes coalescing, one 
and a half to tliree lines thick, strongly verrucose, verrucaa three-fourths of a 
line broad and high, divaricate, and laxly arranged ; surface armed, closed at 
summit by a calyptra made of eight convergent spicula; axis brownish, axils 
scarcely compressed. 
Mediterranean Sea(?). Norwegian Sea. 
82. G. Muricea cerea (Esper,) Ehrenberg. — Low, slender, fruticulose, 
subflabellate, covered every where with spreading, reddish spicula; branches 
nearly terete, rather broader than a line, obtuse ; polyps densely and through- 
out scattered, yellow above, on^-third of a line in breadth. 
East Indies. — Esper. 
83. G. Muricea verticillaris {Linn.,) D. — Ramose, flabellate, one and 
a Iialf feet high ; branches pinnate; pinnules setaceous; verrucose, verrucsB 
ascending, incurved, verticillate, less than a line long. 
Mediterranean Sea. 
84. G. Muricea myura (Lamarck). — Whitish; simple, filiform, caudate; 
surface verrucose, the verrucse scattered, oflen bifarious, oblong ascending, 
Eubpyriform, incurved, cortex thin. 
Genus Y. — PEIMNOA. — Lamouroux. 
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Gorgonid^ secreting an inarticulate axis ; polyps, when con- 
tracted, long verruciform, and having motion at base ; their 
sides armed with imbricate scales. 
Primnoa lepadifera (Linnceus,) Lamouroux. — Lax ramose, dichotomous, 
subflabellate; verj^ucse long (2^ to 3 lines), subpyriforrn, closed by 8 scales; 
axis of the branches testaceous ; of the branchlets corneous. 
Seas of Northern Europe. 
Genus YT. — BEBEYCE. — Philippi. 
Gorgonidre having an inarticulate corneous axis; polyps large 
and not retractile. 
Bebryce mollis (Philippi). — Arborescent ; polyps remotely scattered ; 
cortex spongy. 
Mediterranean Sea. — Philippi. 
