PURPLE GORGONIA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Animal growing with the habit of a plant. 
Polypes scattered from the lateral pores. 
Stem fixed, horny branched, covered with a soft 
bark. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, isle. 
Subdichotomous purple GORGONIA, with 
twiggy branches, and double rows of white 
polypes. 
Purple shrubby GORGONIA. 
This beautiful coral is principally seen about the 
American coasts ; its general height is about a foot or 
eighteen inches. 
