GORGONIA BRIAREUS. 
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CHARACTER GENERICUS, 
Animal crescens plants facie. 
Hydrce sparss e poris lateralibus. 
Sth'ps radicata, cornea, continua, ramosa, basi 
explanata, cortice obdudla. 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS, dfc. 
GORGONIA teres, crassa, cinerea, basi ex¬ 
planata, osse vitreo-aciculato, hydris mag- 
nis cirratis. 
GORGONIA BRIAREUS. G. subramosa 
teres crassa, basi supra rupes late explana¬ 
ta, came interna subalbida, extcrne cine¬ 
rea, polypis majoribus odtotcntaculatis cir¬ 
ratis, osse ex aciculis vitreis purpureis, in¬ 
ordinate sed longitudinaliter, compadtis 
composito. 
Soland. ct HUh Zooph. p. 93 . 1.14. f. 1, 
Circa eras Americanas prscipue conspicitur Gorgo- 
nia Briareus, altitudine decern vel quindecira uncias 
iequans. Colore interdum variat. 
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