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have here defcribed : for in this the tubular pores are 

 more prominent, appearing on the fides like denticles, 

 and the upper part is flat, and fpread out in dichotomous 

 branches. It makes a moft elegant figure, when there is- 

 a group of them together, being milk-white, and growing 

 to about three or lour inches high. 



17. Millepora violacea. Violet-colored Millepore, 



Millepora in piano ra- This flat branching Mille- 



mofa, ramulis afcenden- pore has round, erect branches, 

 tibus flexuojis tereti-com- a little compreffed, and waved ; 

 prejfis^futurd porofa mar- there is a future with a line 

 ginem ambiente* of pores encompafling the mar- 



gin. 



This Coral is of a fine violet-blue ; it rifes from a 

 fpread bafe about three inches high : befides the line of 

 large pores that furrounds the margin, there are two rows 

 of fmall pores, one on each fide of it. The furface, 

 when magnified, is rough, like chagreen, and here and 

 there upon it are clufters of little warts, like ftuds or bul- 

 lulse, which may probably be its ovaries. When the 

 branches are broke acrofs, there appears in the middle a. 

 row of three or four large pores, furrounded by fmall 

 ones. I had formerly a fpecimen of this Coral from 

 W. Webber, Efq. F. R. S. and very lately fome compleat 

 ones from Mr. Banks and Dr. Solander, that the divers, 

 had fifhed up about the iflands in the South Sea. 



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