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fnbdiciiotomows, grey, of tlie fubftance and appearance 
of eork, with a branched trunk two inches high, 
20. Gorgonia fuberofa : woody, very much branched, 
diffufe, the branches comprefiTed and grooved, and co¬ 
vered with fubftellate fcattered pores. Inhabits the 
Indian and Africanfeas ; near three feet high ; flefli red, 
fpongy ; bone pale red, corky ; branches long, round, 
eretf. 
21. Gorgonia coralloides: woody, eredl, fubdicho- 
tonious and varioully fhaped ; llefh rofy, tuberous, with 
llellate tuberculate florets. Found on the rocks in the 
Mediterranean Sea ; near a foot long ; pale grey, very 
tough, with yellow florets. 
22. Gorgonia elongata : dichotomous, divaricate, 
with the fleflt red, and covered with papillous, fcat¬ 
tered, fubimbricate, pores, through which the polypees 
advance their tentacula or feelers. It is found on the 
rocks of the Atlantic Ocean; pale, brittle; four feet 
long; branches Iquare, witli rows of florets at the angles. 
23. Gorgonia fcirpea : very fimple, ftraight, with a 
decoiupofite leafy bafe, and foft tuberculate flefli. Tliis 
inliabits the Indian feas ; brown, tapering towards tiie 
tip; the flefh cinereous when dry. 
24. Gorgonia fetacea ; fimple, rigid, M'ith a calca- 
reovss, white, fubtuberculate, flefh. Inhabits the rocka 
of the Affieiican Ocean ; blackifli. 
25. Gorgonia viminaiia-; very long, depreffed, branch¬ 
ed, with eredt fubdivifions ; flefli yellow ; florets feated 
along each margin of the brandies. Inhabits the Me- 
diterranean,and Atlantic ; above a foot high ; branches 
llender ; florets or polypees white, with eight tentacula 
or claws ; bone blackifli, horny. 
26. Gorgonia verrucofa : bifai ions, with round fiexu- 
ous brandies, and an orange or yellow calcareous bark, 
covered with white prominent florets, which are the 
moutlis wl'.ereby the aniiiial takes in its food. Tliis in¬ 
habits the Mediterranean, Weft Indian, and Britifli, 
feas ; and is found adhering to rocks and flones ; fonie- 
times three feet high or more, and grows in a fan-fliaped 
manner; wlien dry it is of a dirty-white or cinereous 
colour ; bone of a fubftance between wood and horn. 
This is exhibited on the Gorgonia Plate III. 
27. Gorgonia anceps : flightly branched, with com- 
preffed Item and branches, each with a row of florets 
along both the margins. Found on the American and 
Britifli coalts ; nearly two feet high ; flefli calcareous ; 
bone roundifli, Imall at the ends, of a horny leathery 
texture; when recent it is of a fine violet colour, but 
when dry yellowifli or white. 
28. Gorgonia crafla : round, dichotomous, with long, 
tliick, divaricate, erect, branches ; flefli thick, violet- 
colour, with fmall, prominent, approximate, equidifiant, 
pores; bone dark-brown, and horny. Found on the 
rocks and lliores of the Weft-Indian feas ; florets with 
eight tentacula. 
29. Gorgonia pinnata: comprefled and pinnate, with 
very fimple branches ; flefh red, with oblong pores, 
inhabits the African and North leas ; from one and a 
half to four feet high ; horny, brown, and yellowifli on 
the branches, 
30. Gorgonia fanguinolenta: flat, very much branch¬ 
ed and fubdivided, with yellow bark, and purple pores 
in double rows. Inhabits tlie Mediterranean and At¬ 
lantic fea-s; a foot high; trunk flat, branched; the 
branches pinnate, the fmaller ones often fubdivided and 
dichotomous; bone horny; flefh Ihiooth, with nume¬ 
rous minute tuberculate pores difpofed in a double row 
on the margins of the branches. 
31. Gorgonia violacea : a little depreffed, with pin¬ 
nate branches ; bark violet, nearly fquare, with fonie- 
xvhat prominent pores. Found on rocks and ledges in 
t he American feas ; above a foot long, horny, and often 
with fhells adhering to it. 
32. Gorgonia felofa; round, pinnate, W'ith diffufe 
fubdivifions and purplifh bark. This inhabits the Me¬ 
diterranean and American feas; very upright, nearly 
two feet high ; the old bark often greyifli or incrufted 
with a yellowifli or white calcareous matter. 
33. Gorgonia petechizans: fubdichotomous, very 
much branched, with a yellow two-grooved bark, co¬ 
vered witJi red pores. This is a b,eautiful fpecies, 
about two feet high ; horny, black, with amber-coloured 
ramifications. 
34. Gorgonia peftinata : round, with parallel, afeend.- 
ing, fimple, branches, inclining tlie fame way ; bark 
red, with gibbous, fcatvered, pores ; bone white, hard, 
and brittle. This is found on rocks and flones on the 
fliores of the Eaft Indian feas ; the branches all put out 
from one fide. 
35. Gorgonia abietina : branched and fubdivided: 
bark yellow, with rows of purple florets on eacli fide; 
bone lioniy, yellpwifh. Found on the rocks and fliorcs 
of Africa ; about a foot high, and often covered with 
Imall bernacles ; flem flat, witli tlie older branches irre¬ 
gular ; the younger ones pinnate. 
36. Gorgonia caly'culata : branched and fubdivided, 
with ereft, thick, ramifications, covered with truncate 
papillae ; flefli cinereous without, and purplifh within, 
funiilhed with large cup-fliaped florets; bone dark 
brown, and horny. 
37. Gorgonia briareus : with very thick branches, 
and dilated bafe ; flefli pale-grey witJiout, and whitifli 
witliin ; bone compofed of fmall purple, glaffy, needles, 
irregularly and clofely dilpofed-longitudinally. Found 
on the fhores of the Weft-Indiaii ifkuids ; florets large, 
prominent, numerous, and irregularly difpofed. 
38. Goi'gonia ventalina : reticulate, witii the branches 
coniprelfed externally at the fides ; bark red. This in¬ 
habits the Indian Ocean ; flefli black or brown. 
39. Gorgonia reticulum : branches reticulate, ivith 
very clofe-f'et ramifications, and red tuberculate bark. 
This alfo inhabits the Indian Ocean; it is very pon¬ 
derous, and grey when dead. 
40. Gorgonia clathrus: branches reticulate and 
woody, with round ramifications, and fmooth bark, co¬ 
vered with fimple pores. This is only about two palms 
high ; pale, with a thin reddifli-grey bark. 
41. Gorgonia flabellum : beautifully and mofl deli¬ 
cately reticulated, with the branches comprefled on the 
inner fide ; bark participating of various fliades of co¬ 
lours while in a living ftate ; bone blackifli, horny, and 
flightly flriate on the larger branches. This inhabits niofi 
feas,-and is often found feveral feet high, and expanded 
into a large fan-fhaped furface ; it is flexile, horny, and 
black; the older bark whitifli or grey; pores irregu¬ 
larly placed, but generally in the form of a quincunx ; 
trunk and branches pinnate, and by means of the fmaller 
branches blending together, forms an elegant kind of 
net-work ; polypees witli eiglit claws.—From the great 
beauty and delicacy of this fpecies, it has received the 
name of Venus’s IMn ; and is correctly figured in the 
Gorgonia Plate IV. 
GORGO'NIAN, adj. As if proceeding from Gorgon; 
The reft his look 
Bound with Gorgonian rigour not to move. Milton.^ 
GORGOPFI'ONE, a daughter of Perfeus and An¬ 
dromeda, who married Perieres king of Metlenia, by 
whom fhe Iiad Aphareus and Leucippus. After the 
death of Perieres, fhe married (Ebalus, who made her 
mother of Icarus and Tyndarus. She is the firftwhom 
the mytholbgifts mention as having had a fecond huf- 
band. Apollodonis. 
GORGOPH'ORA, a furname of Minerva, from her 
legis, on which was the head of the gorgon Medufa. 
GOR'GORA, an ifland of Abyilinia, in Lake Deni- 
bea, where father Pays built a palace, in which the em¬ 
peror uf'ually refides in the winter: fifteen miles north- 
weft of Gondar. 
GOR'GUE (La), a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment 
