G. GORGONIA. 
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FEATHER. 
44. Gorgonia penna. Branching and dichoto- 
mous ; branches expanded, and few in number ; ra- 
mifications alternate, straight, parallel, approximate, 
and filiform; polypi alternate, recurved, and lateral; 
rind thin, and whitish ; axe solid, and of a fawn co- 
lour ; height about two decimetres ; length of the ra- 
mifications from two to three centimetres. 
Australasia. 
ELONGATED. 
45. Gorgonia elongata. Dichotomous ; branches 
remote; polypi scattered, and almost imbricated. 
Northern Sea and Atlantic Ocean. 
RUSHY. 
46. Gorgonia juncea. Very simple, very long, cy- 
lindrical, and attenuated at the extremity ; polypi 
scattered and small ; rind red or orange ; height from 
ten to fifteen decimetres. 
American Ocean, and the Isle Mauritius. 
Nota. A fragment of this Gorgonia more than a 
metre high, and fixed to a piece of lava, was found 
and brought me from the Isle of France or Mauritius. 
MOUSE-TAIL. 
47. Gorgonia myura . Stem simple, filiform, 
bent, and whitish ; polypi knob-formed, transversely 
wrinkled, curved towards the stem, and placed by 
double rows in an alternate disposition on the two 
opposite sides of the stem ; height from fifteen to 
twenty centimetres. 
