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The Natural Hiffory of Famaica. 
round holes or cavities in them, the colour was like that of a Sponge, and 
the Fibers much finer than thofe of any of this kind. 
Te was caft up on the Banks of the Sea by the Waves, fometimes, though 
not very frequently. 
XLI. Pila marina velut ex ampullis conftans ad Spume fimilitudinem. C. B. 
pin. 368. Cat.p.7. Veficaria marina in pilam conglomerata ex oftrearum testis, 
Plukenct. Aim. p. 335. 
This is frequently caft upon the Banks of the Sea by the Waves, beyond 
the Palifadoes near Port Royal, &c. 
XLIL Veficaria marinanon ramofa, ex ampullis majoribus, paucioribus, finnatis 
auricule inftar conftans, cujus fuperficies, favi inftar notantur. Cat. p.7. 7: abn4. 
Fig. 2. 
“There were only two or three of thefe Bladders joined together, they were 
{inuous hereand there, with cavities, and look’d fomething like an Ear; and 
were marked on the Surfaces like Honey Combs, cach of them being as 
big as twenty of the ordinary Bladders of Veficaria marina non ramofa, 
{t was ca{t upon the Shore with the other. 
XLUI. Vefcaria marina non ramofa, é veficulis infundibuli forma, membrana un- 
dulata extante coronatis conftans. Cat. p. 7. Tab.r4. Fig. 3 
There was an oblong String or Ligament, which feemed to fatten this to 
fome folid Body at the bottom of the Sea, from it arofe a great many Py- 
ramidal Bladdets, liketo fo many Funnels, beginning narrow, and increafing 
from the point at bottom for about three quarters of an Inch to the top, 
where was an undulated Crown or ledge furrounding the top. Thefe Blad- 
ders were dark Yellow, likeGlew or Parchment, fome of them had inclofed 
a {mall éuccinum, and others.a hole, out of which I fuppofe it had crept, fuch 
Bladders being often found empty. The whole was very clegant, and 
doubtlefS the ova of fome buccinum. 
It was thrown up with the former about the month of December, on the 
ercat Sea fide, beyond Port Royal near the Palifadoes. 
Thefe three lait recited Subftances, are, without queftion, nothing elfe 
but the Membranes, or Shells of the Eggs or Spawn of Fifhes, though they 
have been reckoned Plants by the greateft number of Naturalifts. 
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