G. ALCYONIUM. 
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DEVIL’S HAND. 
21. Alcyonium manus diaboli. A very shapeless 
mass, irregularly lobed, subangular ; lobes coales- 
cent, obtuse, cylindrical or compressed ; varying in 
their length. 
Northern sea. 
DIFFUSE. 
22. Alcyonium diffusion. Branches numerous, 
long, diffuse, almost compressed, irregular, and coa- 
lesced ; oscules dispersed ; height from twenty-eight 
to thirty centimetres. 
SCEPTRE-SHAPED. 
23. Alcyonium sceptrum . Long, cylindrical, and 
in the form of a club ; oscules numerous, dispersed, or 
in heaps ; fibres very fine, and incrusted ; colour 
whitish ; height twenty-five centimetres. 
SWORD-SHAPED. 
24. Alcyonium ensiferum. Upright and branch- 
ing ; branches long, almost compressed, curved like 
a scimitar, simple or proliferous, porous, and os- 
culated ; colour whitish ; height forty-five centime- 
tres. 
Australasia. 
JUNCOUS. 
25. Alcyonium junceum. Tuft of whitish shoots, 
•which are long, slender, branching, dilated or com- 
