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dentated or crenated ; fo that if it is not adiftinct fpecies, 

 it is certainly a variety of the following. 

 This was found in the Mediterranean Sea. 



2. Madrepora Fungites. Tab. 28. 



r o Fig. 5. 



Madrepora fimplex acaulis convexa, lamellis latere fub- 

 a [peris i?idivijis : alternis minoribus fubincompletis : 



Tab. 28. Fig. 5. 6. 



Madrepora Fungites. Linn. Syft. Nat. Ed. 12. p. 1273. 

 Pall. Zooph. 281. n. 165. 



Lamellce omnes margine valde denticulatae, latere au- 

 tem vix exafperatae ; tubercula enim minutiiTima funt. 

 Lamella majores continues a centro ad peripheriam ; mi- 

 nores fcpiflime centrum non adtingunt. Centrum ob- 

 long;um. 



The animal of this curious Coral is defcribed by Rum- 

 phius, who faw it alive, as I have already mentioned in 

 my remarks on this genus. Dr. Linnaeus obferves, that 

 Forfkohl defcribes the animal of it to be of the Priapus 

 (or Aclinia) kind, and, in the fame manner as a fhell- 

 iifb, forms its fhell under itfelf. 



This Coral is met with in great abundance in the Red 

 Sea, and the Eaft-Indian Ocean ; it is frequently found 

 of five or fix inches diameter, and often of a milk-white 

 color. 



In many curious colle&ions, fuch as thofe of the Dut- 

 chefs Dowager of Portland and Dr. Fothergill, there are 

 many young ones adhering to the old ones, with large 

 rifing lamella?, as in the old ones. 



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