This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ... Color: The stem is grayish, lightening distally. The branches are yellowish, with a golden gleam showing through from the iridescent axis. The polyps are white. Localities.--Station 5091; Joga Shima Light, N. 15, W., 4.2 miles; 197 fathoms.?Station 5079; Omai Saki Light, N. 29 E., 24 miles; 475-505 fathoms. A mere ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ... Color: The stem is grayish, lightening distally. The branches are yellowish, with a golden gleam showing through from the iridescent axis. The polyps are white. Localities.--Station 5091; Joga Shima Light, N. 15, W., 4.2 miles; 197 fathoms.?Station 5079; Omai Saki Light, N. 29 E., 24 miles; 475-505 fathoms. A mere fragment, not identified with certainty, was secured from this station. General distribution.--The type was taken by the Siboga Expedition in Celebes Sea from a depth of 190 meters. Hawaiian Islands, 411-476 fathoms (Nutting). CHRYSOGORGIA FLEXILIS (Wright and Studer). Dasygorgia flexilis Wright and Studer, Challenger Reports, the Alcyonaria, 1889, p. 10. Chrysogorgia flexilis Versluys, Chrysogorgiidse of the Siboga Expedition, 1902, p. 43. Several fragments, mostly destitute of polyps, were secured. The first nodes of the branches are much longer than in the original description, although this is not true of the smaller specimens secured. Branches in a right-handed spiral, 2/5, as described by Versluys from the type. Branchings to the fourth order are produced. There is. usually but a single polyp to the internode, except in the distal ones, where there may be two or three. The polyps are expanded above and below, a typical one being 2 mm. in height. The walls show 8 vertical rows of bar-like spicules with ends rounded and often expanded. There are a few verrucse on the spicules. The spicules at the polyp bases are more crowded and irregular, the whole spiculation being more crowded than in type, almost covering the body walls. Usually, however, there are evident bare streaks between the rows of spicules, the spicules of a given row often imbricating. The rows are extended over the basal parts of the tentacles; but are smaller, irregularly place...
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