PURPLE^SIDED GORGONIA. 
Generic Character. 
Animal growing in the form of a plant. 
Stem of a horny, offeous, or even lapideous fub- 
ftance. 
Bark foft, marked with numerous polype-cells. 
Specific Character, &c. 
Flat, branched, pinnated GORGONIA, with 
yellow bark and double-rowed purple pores. 
Purple-fpotted yellow GORGONIA. 
The defcription of this Gorgonia, by Dr. Pallas, 
is fo accurate, that it is unneceli'ary to add any thing 
to the account given by that celebrated Naturalift, 
who informs us that it fometimes grows to the height 
of a foot or more; though fpecimens often occur of 
much inferior fize. The trunk is always branched 
a flat direction, with the branches pinnated; the 
fmaller ones occafionally fubdivided and dichoto¬ 
mous. The body or wood is of a horny fubftance 
and color; the bark yellow and fmooth ; the pores 
numerous, and projecting in the form of tubercles, 
difpofed 
