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has'given us a figure of one of thefs Antipathes, tab. 40. 

 fig. 179. No. 1. 2. 3. where there feems to be on the 

 fmalleft branches regular rows of polype-like mouths, 

 with two arms to each, fitting on little ioot-ftalks, as at 

 A. A. No. 3. Thefe the Count takes to be of the fame 

 fubftanee and ufe as the flowers in the Coral : but we 

 mult wait for further -information, before we can con- 

 clude any thing from his obfervations, as his figures are 

 but rude. 



Some people imagine the Antipathes grows like a vege- 

 table ; but they have not obferved, that when we break 

 their Items obliquely acrofs, wc find the fpines regularly 

 difpofed in the infide layers as well as the outfide, as I 

 have expreffed it in iig. 6. tab. 19; whereas, in trees and 

 fhrubs that are covered with fpines, when we cut or break 

 them obliquely acrofs, we have not yet been able to dii- 

 cover the fpines in the internal annual circles of the 

 wood. 



Another material argument has not been yet noticed, 



which is, that the medulla or pith-like fubftanee of the 



larger branches has no communication with the medulla 



of the leffer branches, being always feparated by a fep- 



tum, or bony partition of the fame fubftanee with the 



reft of the item. It is quite otherwife in trees and 



fhrubs ; io that though they have an outward vegetable 



form, their anatomv as well as chemical principles, is 



quite different. 



Tab. 19. 



I. Antipathes fpiralis. Spiral Antipathes. 



Antipathes Jimpliciffima Antipathes, or Black Co- 



fpiralis fcabra. r<al, with afingle twifted rough 



ftem. 



Tab. 19. Fig. i — 6. 



O 2 Gorgo?iia 



