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ISIS. 107 



windings, both of its bony and Hefhy part ; and likewife, 

 as it rifes, we find it incloiing fhells and other extraneous 

 fubftances, that ftick to it, like the Gorgonias. 



This beautiful Coral is otten brought by our Eaft-India 

 (hips from Prince's Illand, in the Straits of Sunda, on 

 the fouthern coaft of Sumatra. Specimens with the flefh 

 on them are rarely to be met with, as the failors generally 

 fcrape off the flefh to fhew the beauty of the black and 

 white joints. 



3. Ills coccinea. Dwarf Scarlet IJis. Tab. 12. 



Ills piunila varie ra- This little Ills has its 



mofa, ramulis divarica- branches irregularly fpread. 

 tisy ojfe articulato lineari Its bone is jointed, ilender, 

 fubjiriato ruberrimOy in- very red, and a little ftriated ; 

 ter?iodiis brevibusfpongio- the joints are united by fhort, 

 fis fulvtSy came intus pal- fpongy, yellowifh genicula- 

 lide rojea, extus cellulis tions. The flefh on the in- 

 elevatis verructformibus fide is of a pale rofe color ; on 

 coccineisy ofculis minimis. the outfide it is covered with 



little riling wart-like fcarlet 

 cells, each having a little 

 mouth. 



Tab. 1 2. Fig. 5. 



This Dwarf Ills differs from the Dichotomous Ills of 

 the Cape, in being much fmaller, and irregular in its 

 branches. Nothing- can exceed the brig-htnefs of its fcar- 

 let color. It is about two or three inches high, and was 

 collected on the coaft of Mauritius, in the year 1767, 

 and prefented to Dr. J. Fothergill, with many other rare 

 fea productions, by the furgeon of an Eaft-India ihip that 



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