Gougonia. 
Z. ASTEROIDA. 
183 
Gmel. iv. 648- Turt. Brit. Faun. 206. Cavol. Polyp, mar. 29, tav. 
1, fig. 1-11, and tav. 4, fig. 1-16. Lam. Anim. s. Vert. ii. 315. 2de 
edit. ii. 491. Bose, Vers, iii. 36. Lamarck in Mem. du Mus. ii. 82. 
Corail. 207. Stew. Elem. ii. 430. Flem. Brit. Anim. 512. Risso , 
1’Europ. Merid. v. 327 Gorg. viminalis, Sower. Brit. Misc. 81, pi. 
40. Jameson in Wern. Mem. i. 560. Turt. Brit. Faun. 206. La 
G. verruqueuse, Blainv. Actinol. 505, pi. 87, fig. 3. 
Hab. Deep water. “ Mount’s Bay in Cornwall,” Mr Batten. 
Plentiful on the Devonshire coast, Montagu . Said by Dr Walker 
to occur in Scotland, Jameson . “ I have also received it from Scot- 
land,” Sowerby. 
Polype-mass more than 12 inches in height, and 15 or 16 in 
breadth, fixed to rocks by a broad circular fibro-corneous disk, 
shrub-like, branched from near the base, the branches expanded la- 
terally, cylindrical, erect or erecto-patent, warty. Axis black, smooth 
and somewhat glossy, round or a little compressed, compact and cor- 
neous, with a snow-white pith in the centre, irregularly cellular and 
very like the pith of a rush ; near the extremities of the branches 
the axis appears to be a single tube striated longitudinally, but this 
appearance is produced by drying, for when steeped in water the 
striae are removed ; it is often bulged or knotted at uncertain inter- 
vals, but no pores can be detected in its parietes. Crust white, cre- 
taceous, friable, warted with numerous polype-cells and wrinkled in 
the small spaces between them ; thickest towards the ends of the 
branches which it covers over. Cells partly filled with a yellowish fi- 
brous substance being the remains of the polypes, their orifices clos- 
ed with eight converging obtuse small segments, one of which is so 
much larger than the others as to occupy a half or a third of the whole 
circumference. 
2. G. placomus, irregularly branched , the branches disposed 
in a dichotomous order and a fiattish form , cylindrical , icarty ; 
cells protuberant , conical , surrounded at top by little spines. Ellis. 
Plate XXV. Fig. 2. 
Warted Sea-fan, Ellis, Corail. 67. no. 1. t. 27. fig. a, A. 1, 2, 3 Gor- 
gonia placomus, Ball. Elench. 201. Lin. Syst. 1290. Mull Zool. Dan. 
prod. 254. no. 3061. Ellis and Soland . Zooph. 86. Turt. Gmel, iv. 
649. Lamarck in Mem. du Mus. ii. 83. Turt. Br. Faun. 206. Berk. 
Syn. i. 212. Lam. Anim. Vert. ii. 316. 2de edit. ii. 492. Bose, Vers, iii. 
31. Corall. 207. Stew. Elem.ii. p. 430. Flem. Brit. Anim. 512. La 
G. placome, Blainv. Actinolog. 505. 
Hab. Coast of Cornwall, Ellis, 
