PINNATED GORGONIAv 
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, t?.-. 
Slightly compressed pinnated blood-red GOR- 
GONIA, with simple branches, and ob¬ 
long pores. 
Red African GORGONIA. 
PINNATED GORGONIA. 
The pinnated Gorgonia adheres to rocks in the 
African seas, and is sometimes seen of the height of 
three feet. 
