Fig . 25. 
FAMILY Y. GORGONIADJE. 
14. Gorgonia,* Linnaeus. 
Character. — Polype-mass rooted , arborescent , consisting of a 
central axis barked loith a polypiferous crust : the axis horny , 
continuous and flexible , branched in coequality with the polype- 
mass : the crust when recent soft and fleshy , ichen dried porous 
and friable : the orifices of the polype-cells more or less protube- 
rant . 
1. G. verrucosa, much and irregularly branched , the branch- 
es spreading laterally , cylindrical , flexuous , barked when dry 
with a white ivarted crust : segments of the cells unequal , obtuse . 
Cole, f 
Plate XXV. Fig. 1. 
Frutex marinus flabelliformis, Raii, Hist. Plant, iii. 7. Sir H. Sloane in 
Phil. Trans, abridg. (an. 1746) ix. 198, pi. 4, fig. 4. Keratophyton 
flabelliforme, cortice verrucosa obductum, Raii , Syn. 32. Erica ma- 
rina alba frutescens, Petiv. Mus. cent. prim. 9, no. 50. Warted Sea- 
fan, JBorl. Cornw. 238, tab. 24, fig. 1. Gorgonia verrucosa, Lin. 
Syst. 1291. Pall Elench. 196. Ellis and Soland. Zooph. 89. Turt . 
* From Gorgon — the name of a daughter of Phorcys, whose locks of hair 
were changed into serpents by Minerva. 
f Ray, in his Historia, mentions Mr, afterwards Dr, Cole of Bristol as the 
finder of this zoophyte on the coast of Cornwall. Cole is well known to natu- 
ralists by his ingenious enquiry into the purple liquor of the Purpura lapillus. 
