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CLASS IV. 
LOBED. 
16. Alcyonium pulmonaria. Mass round, and 
lobed ; interior substance pulpy ; colour inclining to 
olive. 
Seas of Europe. 
ORANGE OF THE SEA. 
17. Alcyonium lyncurium . Globular in form; 
surface tuberculous and yellowish ; interior susbtance 
fibrous. 
Northern seas, Mediterranean, and Cape of Good 
Hope. 
PITHY. 
18. Alcyonium alburnum. Stem white, and branch- 
ing ; extremities of the branches attenuated, and tu- 
bulous. 
Indian Ocean. 
PLAITED. 
19. Alcyonium plicatum. Flat and large, gar- 
nished above with thick, tortuous, undulated and 
plaited laminae ; the upper border round ; oscules 
or pores very small, and dispersed ; width twenty-five 
centimetres at least. 
Var. B. Misshapen ; laminae irregularly raised and 
plaited. 
Australasia. 
SINUOUS. 
20. Alcyonium sinuosum. The upper part of the 
mass divided into upright laminae, which are short, 
thick, tortuous, sinuous, and osculated in their termi- 
nating border. 
