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Title: Catalogue of lithophytes or stony corals in the collection of the British Museum
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology Gray, John Edward, 1800-1875
Subjects: Corals
Publisher: London, Printed by order of the Trustees
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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us, grey brown, calcareous.Heliania, Gray, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 480. 127. Heliania spinescens. B.M. Coral rather fan-like, more or less twisted; branches, especiallythe lower, conical, acute, spine-like, sometimes inosculating; upperbranches subsecund. Heliania spinescens, Grai/, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 481. Hab. Philippines (Cuming). 55. PHENILIA. Coral tree-like ; branches short, subquadrangular, divaricating,sometimes coalescing, forming an irregular netted frond ; branchletssubclavate, some free. Bark granular; lateral groove distinct,scarcely sunken. Cells large, sunken, in two or three irregular rows oneach side of the branches. Axis solid, hard, calcareous, horn-coloured.Phenilia, Gray, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 482. HYPNOGORGIADJE. 33 B.M. 128. Phenilia sanguinolenta. Coral yellowish; branches flexuous, interwoven ; branchlets short,clavate, diverging-; cells largodark brick-red, making the coral lookas if spotted with blood. Phenilia sauguiuoleuta, Gray, P. Z. S. 1S50, p. 482. Hah. ? Fiif. 9.
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Phenilia sanguinolenta. b. Bark formed of large imbedded spicnles; poh/pe-cells adpressed to thesides of the branches, covered ivith ivell-markcd spicules, month of cellspinose. Fam. 15. HYPNOGORGIADvE. Coral branched ; branches numerous, drooping, pendulous ; branch-lets subopposite. Bark rough, with naked spicules. Calyces adpressed,adnate to the sides of the branches, formed of spicules, mouth large,ciliated. Axis calcareous, black. 34 CALLICxOEGIADJE. 56. HYPNOGORGIA. Characters of the family, • Hypnogorgia, Dt/chass. ^- Michel. Cor all. Antilles, Suppl. p. 115. MM. Duchassaing and Michelotti (I. o.) observe, The dispositionof the cells is sufficient to distinguish this genus from the genusBlepharogorgia, established by Mr. Gray in the Zoological Journal.I have not established any genus of that name ; but they have de-scribed one themselves at p. 109 (Corall. Ant.) ; so it may be a slipof the pen. 129. Hypnogorgia pendula. Coral branched in a plane; branches very numerous, droop

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