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4. Galaxaura lapidescens (Sol.) Lamx. 



LAMOUROUX, J.'V. F., Histoire des Polypiers corall. flexibl. 1816, p. 

 264. KJELLMAN, F. R., Floride-Sliigtet Galaxaura, p. 3943. 



Corallina lapidescens Solander in ELLIS and SOLANDER, Natural History 





Fig. 101. Galaxaura flagelliformis Kjellm. Part of a plant. (About 1,5:1). 



of many curious and uncommon Zoophytes, London 1786, (ex p., comp. the 

 text below). 



As pointed out by KJELLMAN so many different forms occurring 

 in nearly all tropical seas have in the past been referred to 

 Galaxaura lapidescens, originally described by SOLANDER, that it 

 was to be supposed, a priori, that this species comprehended in 



