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WORMS. ZOOPHYTA. 95. Gorgonia. 
CoraUoiJesi Woody, ered, fubdichotomous and varioufly fhaped : 
rofy, tuberous, with ftellate tuberculate florets. 
Bocc, Obf. Ep. tab. /. 1 5 . , 
Mediterranean-, near a foot long : pale grey, v®''' 
tough, with yellow florets. 
Elojigata. Dichotomous, divaricate, with the fleih red and covers’^ 
with papillous fcattered fubimbricate pores. 
Solander and Ellis Corail. p. ^ 6 . n. 23. 
Inhabits the Atlantic; pale, brittle, 4 feet long : branches fquaf^’ 
with rows of pares at the angles, 
Scirpea, Very fimplc, ftraight, with a decompofite leafy bafe, 
foft tuberculate flefli. 
Pallas el. Zooph. 182. a- 1 1 3. , ^ 
Inhabits the Indian fea ; brown, tapering towards the tip : 
flelli cinereous when dry. 
Setacea. Simple, rigid, with a calcareous white fubtuberculatc fleil’’ 
Pallas el. Zooph. p. 182. n. 114. 
Inhabits the American Ocean : blackifh, 
Viminalis. Very long, deprefled, branched, with ered fubdivifioh^ 
flcfh yellow : florets fcated along each margin of 
branches. 
Solander and Ellis Corail, p. 82. n. 5, tab. \Z.f. t: . 
Inhabits the Mediterranean and Atlantic-, above a foot hig*', 
branches long, (lender : florets white, with 8 tentacula or cla'*'® ' 
bone blackifti, horny, 
Muricata. Round, with deprefled fubdivlded branches: flefli 
whitilh, covered with cred cylindrical fpinous flore'®' 
bone 2-edged, blackilh, 
Catejby Carol. 3. tab. 37. Turgot Mem. t. 23. A. 
Solander and Ellis Lorall. p. 82. n. 6. 
I eti-v. pterigr. tab. flg,<), io» 
Knorr Delic, tab. A, vi. n. 4. 
Ginan. Adr. I.p. 16. tab. 10, /I 23. 
Inhabits about the /fee* 2 — 3 feet high : coriaceo " 
horny, with a white medullary nerve. 
•Verr-uco/a. Bifarious, with round flexuous branches and a wlth'^^ 
calcareous bark covered with white prominent 
Philo/. Tranfaa. 44. p 51. tab. 2, & 50, t. 34./. 19. a. 
Marf. Hifl. Mar. p. 19. 96- 104. tab. 16. 18. 21. 
Seba Muf, tab. 106. n, 3. Cavol.pol, Mar. l.t.t, 
Knorr Delic. l . tab. A, v. Jig. 1. 
