CELLAR! A. 21 



In Come well preferved fpecimens of this fpecies of Co- 

 ralline, collected at the Bahama Iflands by the Rev. Mr. 

 Clarke, I have obferved- fomething very like teftaceous lit- 

 tle bodies at the extremities of their radical tubes : from 

 thefe bodies the tubes have crept along till they have been 

 properly fixt. The Coralline then begins to grow creel, 

 and the polypes appear in the cells ; after this the eggs or 

 young ones appear, one at the fide of each cell ; it is then 

 perfed:. I have mentioned thefe three ftages of the Co- 

 ralline, becaufe I think them fomething analogous to the 

 different changes in mod infects. In the Zoophyte, the 

 various dates are all connected together at length ; but in. 

 the infect,, thefe different ftates are brought about by dif- 

 ferent changes of the exterior furface of the fame body. 



I muft, before I conclude thefe remarks, obferve, that 

 the advocates for vegetation in thefe bodies, call the 

 wrinkled adhering tubes at the bafe, roots : but they 

 fhould examine them ftricflly, and they would find them 

 meer cylinders,, and that they do not grow fmaller to- 

 wards their extremities, which is evidently the cafe with 

 the roots of vegetables. 



_. ,. . , r Soft-feathered Celleferous Co- 



1. Cellana plumofa. ratline. 



Cellaria cellulis tinila- Celleferous Coralline with 



teralibus alternis extror- alternate fharp-pointed cells, 

 fum acutzs, ramis dicho- looking one way, and end- 

 tomis ereSiis faftigiatis. ing at top in dichotomous' 



branches. 



Scft-feathered Cora/line. Ellis Corallin. pag. 33. 

 tab. 18. 



Scrtularia fafiigiata. L inn . Sy ft. Nat. Ed . 12. p. 1 3 1 4. 



2. Cellaria 



