442 CLASSIFICATIONS OF ZOOPHYTES. 



* Calcarea. 



Articulata, tenera, , . . Corallina. 



Articulata, lapidea, . . . Isis. 



Tubulosa, aggregata vel solitaria, . Tubipoba. 



Foraminulosa, . . . Cellepora. 



Lamelloso-stellata, . . . Madrepora. 



Pertusa poris, . . . Millepora. 



** Subcornea. 



Tubulosa, tentaculis simplicibus, . . Fistularia. 



Tubulosa, tentaculis cristatis, . . Tubularia. 



Ramosa, nuda, tentaculis manifestis, . Sertularia. 

 Ramosa, incrustata, tent, inconspicuis . Gobgonia. 



■ * * Fungosa. 



Ossiculum polypiferum, . . Pennatdla. 



Suberosa, poljpis stellatis, . . Alcyonium. 



Stuposa, osculis hiantibus, . . Spongia. 



Osculis atomiferis, . . . Clavaria.* 



The last genus is a sort of mushroom which Miiller was led 

 to arrange among zoophytes from having witnessed the appa- 

 rent spontaneous movements of its sporules ; hut no one has 

 followed him in this, although, it may be remarked, that some 

 recent authors have no better reasons for their proposal to 

 remove a large proportion of the aquatic alga to the animal 

 kingdom.-f- 



* Zoolooglae Danicse Prodromus, p. xxxi. Havn. 1776. The authority of Lin- 

 naeus probably led MUller to his classification of the Fungi. In writing to Dr. 

 Pulteney, Febniary the 18th, 1767, Professor Martyn says, — "I doubt you will 

 conceive that Linnreus is gone mad, if I tell you his opinion concerning Funguses. 

 In a letter to Mr. Collinson, he thus expresses himself about them : — ' Quis potuerat 

 a priori dicere, Fungos esse Animalia, et eorum ova excludi in aquis, et more piscium 

 ludere, dein transire in Fungos ? Mihi semper occurrit istud Plinii, — ' mihi contuenti 

 sese persuasit rerum natura, nil incredibile existimare de ea.' Delectatus fui hoc 

 autumno videre istos vermes e quibus Fungi prodeunt, et eorum stupendam metamor- 

 phosin ex agilissimis vermibus in imraobiles herbaceos Fungos.' I shall soon begin to 



be in pain, lest our poor kingdom of vegetables should be crushed into atoms, by the 



animals on the one hand, and the fossils on the other ! What Linnseus means, I do 

 not at present understand ; but the very dreams of so great a genius merit our atten- 

 tion." — Gorham's Memoirs of John Martyn, &c. p. 134. 



"t* In his Systema Naturse (1767) Linnaeus informs us that the Chaos fungorum, 

 which is in fact the seed of the Lycoperdon, Agarics, Boleti, Moulds, and of Fungi in 



