WORMS. ZOOPHYTA. 95. Gorgonia. 647 
Seba Muf. 3- tab. 1 05. n. I. a. 
Inhabits the American IJlands, adhering to ftoncs : about 3 feet 
long, and very flexible when alive, 
Comprefled, branched and fubdivided: bone flat, horny: 
flefli fcarlet, covered with minute florets. 
Solander and Ellis Corail. f. 80. n. 2. tab. 1 1. 
Inhabits the Cape ofGoodHope; bright flame^colour. 
^’^bracu- Fan fliaped, fubreticulate, tviih numerous round divergent 
branches; flefli reddiih, covered with florets. 
Solander and Ellis Corail. p. 80. n. I. tab. 10. 
Inhabits the Indian Ocean : ftem Ihort, riling from a broad bafe, 
fending forth 2 or 3 thick branches, from which proceed many 
long flender Imaller ones all tending to the cijcumference and 
united here and there by lell'er fide ones, forming a kind of 
net- work. 
^purea, Subdichotomous, with divaricate flender branches: fleflj 
violet, covered with minute tubercles. 
Pallas el. Zooph. p. 1 87. a. 1 1 8. 
.Inhabits South America: round, fmooth, blackilh, the ends of the 
branches yellow. 
’’^“Ppo, Dichotomous, round, with divaricate flender branches : 
flefh red, with numerous hairy florets. 
Rumpf. Amb. 6. 223- tab. 83. 
Inhabits the Indian Ocean ; a foot long : black, horny, and fre- 
quently found with bernacles adhering to it. 
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“‘ma. Flat, with numerous very long Ample divifions : flefli 
fmooth, with fcattered Ample pores. 
Pallas el. Zooph. p. 189. n. 120. 
Iithihits thfi Indian Ocean ; 2-6 feet long: brown, horny, co- 
vered with a calcareous coat, and flexile. 
^“‘I’cata. 
Very much branched, corky, with very minute fcattered 
pores, and many-cleft at the bafe. 
Seba Mu/. 3 tab. 106. n, 6. 
Inhabits feas : fubdichotomous, grey, of the fubftance 
and appearance of cork, with a branched trunk 2 inches high. 
Woody, very much branched, dilFufe, the branches compref- 
fud& grooved, Sccovered with fubflellate fcattered pores, 
Ellis Corail. p. 64. t, 26. fig. P, Q. Soland. lA Ellis, 93. i g. 
Turgot Mem. Infir. tab, 23 fig C. 
Inhabits India zttii dfrica-, near 3 feet high : JleJh red, fpongy ; 
bone pale red, corky : branches \ocsg, round, erefl. 
Corallaides, 
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