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rachis rather larger in median portion; general shape featherlike, hence the name; polyps borne on 
upper portion of the pinna. The colony varies in size from lo to 25 cm.; color beautiful purplish red, 
bulb whitish and opaque in preservation. Species widely distributed over both eastern and western 
Atlantic and along the entire New England coast and south to Chesapeake Bay. 
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