. Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913-18. Scientific expeditions. 42 G Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-191S Radicipes gracilis Verrill. Lepidogorgia qracilis VeiikiLl, op. cit., 1884, p. 220; op. cit., 1885, pp. 512, 533, pi. II, fif-s. 10, FiK^. II) and Uta. Huilirqis ijrarihs W'rrill. Fig. HI. Portion fr )in tlic miiliUe of the .stalk bearing two polype; Ida. l>a~e uf -tallv and hasai ronl-lilve , .v 2. The axis is simple, tall, slender, tapered to the tip, terete, iridescent. Polyp calii Ics are laru,<', elonjjateil, ofte'n wider than the axis, seated obliqu
. Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913-18. Scientific expeditions. 42 G Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-191S Radicipes gracilis Verrill. Lepidogorgia qracilis VeiikiLl, op. cit., 1884, p. 220; op. cit., 1885, pp. 512, 533, pi. II, fif-s. 10, FiK^. II) and Uta. Huilirqis ijrarihs W'rrill. Fig. HI. Portion fr )in tlic miiliUe of the .stalk bearing two polype; Ida. l>a~e uf -tallv and hasai ronl-lilve , .v 2. The axis is simple, tall, slender, tapered to the tip, terete, iridescent. Polyp calii Ics are laru,<', elonjjateil, ofte'n wider than the axis, seated obliquely, well apart, and secund. ('olour wlien li\'inji is orange or salmon-color. C'alicles are filled with elongated spindles. ('cenenchynia is very thin; its spicules are thin, scale-like, oMong, with I'onnded ends and often constricted in the middle. Root processes are nuich branched, round, hard, calcareous, and taper to small slender tips. Height up to 3 feet oi- more (900 nun.). It was taken by the "All)atross" in 18S3, off Cieorges Bank, in 858 fathoms, and farther south in 1731 find 1735 fathoms in large numbers. A comparison with the types of Stearns shows the generic identity <jf Lcpiilagargia. Family KERATOISID/E Gray, 1870 (emended). -{- AcaiicUnihr + Mopseada' [pars] Gray, Cat. Lithophvtes Brit. Alus., PI). 13, ](â ), 18, 1870. Ccixdiiisidrc ^'ERI{ILL, Btdlctin !Mus. Gomp. Zool., Vol. XI, p. 11, 1883. Axis sini])le (.)r variously branched, with long calcareous joints, which are often hollow, altcriuiting with shorter horny joints. Bi'anches, when present, sonietnncs aiise from tlie calcareous joints, l)Ut more fref|uently from the horny ones. Base calcarcDus, usually divided into long, flat, irregular lobes, serving as anchois m the mud of the sea bottom. Grcnenchyma thin, commonly with lonii lusiform conspicuous spicules, sometimes with other small scale-like ones a1 the surface, ('alleles large and prominent, filled with large fusiform s
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