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Cluf. agrees pretty well to this. I have fometimes thought that this may 
perhaps be the following Coralline not grown to its due magnitude. 
It grew in the Sea every where about this Ifland, whence it was thrown 
up by the Waves with other Recrements of the Sea. 
XIV. Corallina fruticofa elatior, ramis quaquaver[um expanfts teretibus. Cat.p.3. 
Tab. 22. Fig.t, 2,3. An Corallina pulcherrima, Corteniana, fen arbufcula marina Tab 12. 
coralloides, ramofiffima foliis teretibus, abrotani famine inftar verrucofts. Plukenet. Fig, 1, 2.3: 
Almag. p.118 2? Sea Feather. 
This has a two or three Inch long diameter’d broad woody Pedeftal, 
{pread on any Stone or ftable Body in the bottom of the Sea, from whence 
rife Stalks about two, three, or four Foot high, tough, woody, as large as 
ones Finger, round and divided into feveral {mall Twigs {pread on every 
hand, of about three or four Inches long. All of them are incruftated with 
a Coralline Matter, of a yellowifh, Purple, or whitifh Colour, having fome 
{mall holes, or afperities in its Surface, and very often balan, or the co- 
rallium album candicans adulterinum J.B. {ticking tothem. I fufpect the Trunk 
and Branches of this, cleared of their Cruft, may fometimes pals for black 
Coral, making fome of thofe kind of Plants called by Mr. Zhornefort in his 
El. Bot. Lithophyta. 
It grows on the Rocks at the bottom of the Sea, and from thence the 
whole, or fome fide Branches, by the tumbling of the Sea are caft afhore, 
where by the Waves ’tis cither wholly clear’d of its incruftation looking 
like a Shrub, without Leaves, or partly clear’d, looking yellowilh, and 
tafting very fale. 
Tal.22. Fig.1. Shews this whole Plant contracted, or lefs than the na- 
tural bignefs. Fig. 2. A Branch of it to the natural bignefs, and Fig. 3. a 
{mall Twig of that Branch. 
XV. Corallina fratico[a, ramulis & cauliculis compreffis, quaquaverfum expanfis, 
purpurcis elegantifimis. Cat. p.4. Tab.2rr. Fig. 4. 
This, which appeared to be only part of the Plant, had its inward Stalks 
and Branches about a Foot high, being roundifh, blackifh, lignofe, tough, fre- 
quently branch’d, and covered with two Laming, or Plates of a Coralline 
{ubftance, and moft elegant Purple Colour, though in fome places ‘tis 
whitifh, of a faltifh raft, and Sea or Fifhy fmell, as others of this Kind ; the 
Plates or incruftation of this are about the thicknefs of a Sixpence, and 
from the breadth of half an Inch it has at bottom, decreafe towards their 
tops, and look fomewhat like to the Lead wherewith Glafiers join their 
Pannels of GlafS one to another in making their Windows. 
J found irthrown upon one of the Cayos off of Port Royal. 
XVI. Corallina opuntiodes, ramulis denfioribus, C foliis magis finuatis atque 
corrugatis. Cap. p. 4. Zab. 20. Fig.2. An Corallina fcutellaris alba, rofarii 
inftar perforata, Plukenet. Almag. p. i 182 an Corallina cy opuntia Fa- 
pee ee cum orbiculis plurimis quaft pendulis per ficcitatem nigris, Ejufd. 
2614 ? 
This feem’d to be in every thing the fame with the Scutellaria five opuntia 
marina, J.B. one Leaf growing out of another, after the manner of Opustia, 
only the Branches were in this more numerous, and the Leaves on their 
Convex or upper part more corrugated, and on their under part more con- 
cave or finuated, whereby it really differs from that of 7 B. TheLeaves 
were tied together by a Thread made of many Filaments collected together, 
fomewhat like Thread made of Flax, and the Leaves were harder and mor¢ 
ftony, breaking between the Teeth, and tafting Salt, {melling likewife of Bay 
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