58 CLASSIFICATIONS OF ZOOPHYTES. 



is the same as Eschara of his preceding edition ; the Furia, 

 which is an apocryphal animal ; and the Chaos, which is an in- 

 fusory animalcule. Were we to analyze the genera we should 

 find, in almost every one of them, species which properly belong- 

 to a different class of animals, or whose characters are at vari- 

 ance with those assig-ned to the genus : but many of these mis- 

 placements were the almost necessary consequences of the then 

 state of knowledge relative to the beings in question. 



Solander, in arranging the materials of Ellis, followed the 

 system of Pallas, but he introduced and placed the Actiniae at 

 the head of the order ; he entirely rejected all the intestinal 

 worms and infusory animalcules; and he amended the defini- 

 tions of the genera by carefully avoiding all theoretical phra- 

 seology. He used the term " Zoophyta" exactly in the same 

 sense, and with the same latitude, that it is used in the present 

 work.* 



The method of Miiller cannot be considered as any improve- 

 ment on those of his predecessors, but there is an attempt after 

 novelty in it. He places the Actinia and the Hydra among the 

 MoUusca, an order full of heterogeneous things, embracing the 

 cuttle-fish, snails and star-fish ; and in the same order we find 

 the beautiful Lucernaria, one of the discoveries of this indus- 

 trious and excellent naturalist. The proper zoophytes he de- 

 nominates Cellularia, which are defined to be compound ani- 

 mals, enclosed in cells, and propagating by means of buds. 

 The genera are classed and defined as follows : 



* Calcarea. 



Articulata, tenera, . . Corallina. 



Articulata, lapirlea, . . Isis. 



Tubulosa, aggregata vel solitaria, . Tubipoka. 



Foraminulosa, . . • Ckllepora. 



Lamelloso-stellata, . . . Madrepora. 



Pertusa poris, . . . Millepora. 



** Subcornea. 

 Tubulosa, tenlaculis simplicibus, . Fistula bia. 



Tubulosa, lentaculis cristatis, . Tubularia. 



• The Natural History of .many rurious and uncommon Zoophytes, by the 

 late John Ellis, systematically arranged and desfribed by the late Daniel Soland- 

 er. I. find. 17H6. -tto. 



