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put in to refit there. At the fame time there was a va- 

 riety of this fpecies found that was perfectly white. 



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XL COR ALL IN A. CORALLINE 



Animal crefcens habitu Is an animal growing in the 



plantce. form of a plant ; 



Stirps fixa^ e tubis ca- whofe ftem is fixt to other 

 pillaribus per cr uft am cal- bodies, and is compofed of 

 caream porofam ftefe exfe- capillary tubes, whofe extre- 

 rentibuS) compofita. mities pafs through a calca- 



reous cruft, and open into 

 pores on the furface. 

 Rami f<zpe articulati, The branches are often 



femper ramuloft^ vel di- jointed, and always fubdivided 

 varicati, liberi vel con- into fmaller branches ; which 

 glutmati et connexi. are either loofe and uncon- 



nected, or joined as if they 

 were glued together. 



This genus has been thought by fome late writers to 

 belong entirely to the vegetable kingdom, and to differ 

 but little from Fucus's and Conferva's : but as Dr. Lin- 

 nceus obferves, in a note on this genus in his Syitem of 

 Nature, p. 1304. " Corallinas ad regnum animale perti- 

 " nere ex fubftantia earum calcarea conftat, cum omnem 

 " calcem animalium efTe productum vcrifilmum fit." 

 Or, that all calcareous fubftances are moffc truly of animal 

 production ; therefore that Corallines, confining of that 

 fubftance, do belong to the animal kingdom. 



What or where the link is that unites the animal and 

 vegetable kingdoms of Nature, no one has yet been able 



to 



