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pie , with small mouths placed irregularly , having polypes with 
eight tentacles : the hone is black , horny , and slightly striated on 
the large branches .” 
Vignette, No. 19, Page 161. 
Flabellum Veneris, Ellis, Corail. 61. pi. 26. fig. A — M. (foreign). Borl. 
Cornw. 238. Gorgonia Flabellum, Lin. Syst. 1293. Mull. Zool. 
Dan. prod. 253. Ellis and Soland. Zooph. 92. Berk. Syn. i. 212. 
Turt. Gmel. iv. 651. Turt. Brit. Faun. 206. Jameson in Wern. Mem. 
i. 561. Flem. Brit. Anim. 511. 
Hab. “ The Flabellum veneris has been found on the shores of 
Mount’s Bay after a storm, but whether from a wrecked vessel, or 
torn off by the violence of the waves from some rock in the Bay, is 
not to be asserted positively,” Borlasse. “ Leith Shore, found by 
the late Mr Mackay,” Jameson. “ Mr Neill informs me that he saw 
Mr Mackay’s specimen shortly after it was found, and that it had 
all the aspect of being fresh and recent,” Fleming. 
Gorgonia lepadifera, 66 this Gorgon is dichotomous : it is 
almost covered with mouths, which are placed close together, hang- 
ing over one another ; they are bell-shaped, bent downwards, and 
full of small scales : the flesh is covered with minute whitish scales. 
The bone in the larger branches is testaceous, or rather like bone, 
and in the smaller ones horny.” 
Gorgonia lepadifera, Lin. Syst. 1289. Mull. Zool. Dan. prod. 254. Ellis 
in Phil. Trans, abridg. xiii. 728, pi. 12, fig. 12. Ellis and Soland. Zooph. 
84. tab. 13, fig. 1, 2. Wern. Mem. i. 560. Stew. Elem. ii. 430. 
Primnoa lepadifera, Flem. Brit. Anim. 513. 
Hab. “ Found on the coast of Aberdeenshire, and coasts of Shet- 
land islands,” Jameson. 
Isis Hippuris, i6 has a jointed stony stem, which rises into 
many loose branches. The bone or support of the animal consists 
oj white , cylindrical, stony , channelled joints, connected together 
by black contracted horny intermediate ones. The flesh is whit- 
ish, plump and full of minute vessels ; the surface of it is full of 
the little mouths of the cells, which are disposed in a quincunx 
order, covering the polypes with eight claws.” 
Isis Hippuris, Lin. Syst. 1287- Ellis and Soland. Zooph. 105, tab. 3, fig. 
1 — 5. Jameson in Wern. Mem. i. 560. Stew. Elem. ii. 429. Stark , 
Elem. ii. 427, pi. 8. fig. 7, 8. 
Hab. “ Said by the late Dr Walker to occur on the east coast of 
Scotland, and also in the Orkney islands,” Jameson . 
