WORMS. ZOOPHYTA. 95. Gorgonia. 64.5 
95. GORGONIA. Animal growing in the 
form of a plant; Jlem coriaceous, corky, 
woody, horny, or bony, compofed of 
glalfy fibres, or like ftone, ftriate, taper- 
ing, dilated at tlie bafe, covered with a 
valcular or cellular flelli or bark, and 
becoming fpongy and friable when dry; 
niouths or jlorets covering the furface of 
the Item and polype-bearing. 
^’Padifera Dichotomous, with crowded imbricate reflefted companu- 
late mouths or florets. 
Solander and Ellis Corail, p. 84. n. 8, tab, I^. fig. I, 2, 
Pontopp. Nornu. \ p.z^z. tab.i^ ' 
Gunner. Ait, Nidros. 2. 321 . tab 9. 
Cluf. Exot. I 22. tab. 1 23. Befi, Mufi. tab. 24, 
Bafitr op.fiubf. z, p. 130. tab. 13. fig. I. 
Inhabits the Nornuay ''cas ; near z ieet high ; fiejh pale, covered 
with minute whitiih icales : fiorets covered with white imbricate 
fcries, and have the appearance of fipall Bcrnacles : Hem white 
with a ftony bafe and cartilaginous branches. 
Pinnate, branched, with alternate parallel fubdivifions 
’ covered with verticillate incurved florets. 
Ellis Corail, p. 60. tab. zS. fig. S, T, V. 1 
So/and. and Ellis Corall. p. 83. n.j. 
Marl. Hi/l. Mar. p. lOi. tab. ZO. fig 94 — 96. 
Inhabits the Mediterranean and North Seas: z — 3 feet high; 
Stem very brittle, white or yellowifh, compofed of layers of a 
ihining pearly flielly lubftance : fiejk covered with white glall'y 
fcales : bfanehes flexile. 
“teomus. 
Branching both ways, with flexuous^ rarely anaftomofing 
branches covered with conic fiorets. 
Ellis Corall. p. 67. tab 27. /% a A. A t . A 2. A 3. 
Solander and Ellis Corall. p. 86, n. 10, 
Gunner Adi. Nidros. 3, 1. tab. i. 
Breyn. prodr. 3. tab. 29. Borl. Ccrniv. p. 238. tab. f. i, 
Marfi. Hijl. Mar.p.gi- tab. \-j.p. 157. tab. 171, 
Pontopp. Hifi. Noriv. i. p. Z73. tab. 1 1. «. 2, 3. 
Inhabits European and Indian Teas : 2 feet high. 
Stem erefl, woody, yellow, fcarlet, reddith or cinereous : branches 
flattifh, bending irregularly towards each other and rarely 
uniting : fiorets furrounded at the top with finall fpines. 
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