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SERTULARIA. 



3. Tubularia ramofa. 



Bra?iched Pipe Coralline. 



Tubularia tubulis ramo- This Pipe Coralline is 



Jis, axillis rapiulorum con- branched, and the infertions 

 tort is. of the branches are twifted. 



Small ramified tubular Coralline. Ellis Corallin. pag. 31. 

 tab. 16. fig. a. tab. 17. fig. a. A. 



"Tubularia ramofa. Linn. Syft. Nat. Ed. 12. p. 1302. 



I have often met with fpecimens of this Coralline that 

 have been regularly branched in a doubly pinnated form ; 

 and when I was at Emfworth, on the borders of SufTex, I 

 found a fpecimen of this Tubularia, with its ovaries 

 placed in a circle round the lower part of its heads. 



VI. SERTULARIA. VESICULAR CORALLINE. 



Animal polycephahtm^ 

 crcfccns habit u plant ce^ ba- 

 fque affixum. 



Stirps tubulofa, cornea , 



deuticulis calyciformibus ob- 



fita^ medulla a?iimalis con- 



tinua capitula polypiformia 



emittentibus. 



Ovaria: vcfcuhefngu- 

 laresy polypos majores y ova 

 vel prolem vivam conti- 



ncntes. 



This is a many-headed ani- 

 mal, growing in the fhape of 

 a plant, and fixt by its bafe. 



Its tubulous horny Hem is 

 full of cup-fhaped denticles, 

 through which proceed little 

 heads in the form of polypes, 

 from the gelatinous medul- 

 lary part, which is continued 

 through the infide. 



The ovaries are little blad- 

 ders, either containing a larger 

 kind of polype-head, which 

 fends forth clufters of eggs, or 

 (in other fpecies) the young 

 ones already formed and alive. 



In 



