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*Pon. bald. ital. p. 221. 228. Antipathes hir- 



futum. 

 J. Baub. bift. III. p. 805. Antipathes hirfutum, 



feu Corallium foliatum. 

 *Raj. hift. app. p. 1849. Morif. oxbn. III. p. 



652. tab. 10. n. 10. Pinus marina. 

 Sloan. cat. p. 3. Hift. I. p. 57. n. 14. tab. 22. 



/. 1-3. Corallina fruticofa elatior, ramis 



quaquaverfum expanfis teretibus. 

 Tourn. inft. p. 575. Lithophytum erecT:um ela- 



tius, ad tamarifcum accedens. 

 Breyn. icon. prodr. p. 34. tab. 30/ Lithophyton 



incruftatum , ramis compreflis fetofis. 

 Catesb. angl III. tab. 35. Lithophyton pinna- 



tum, purpureum, afperum. 

 Ital. Sambeggia (Bauh.) Angl, Large Seafea- 



ther (Browne.) 



D E S C R 1 P T I O. 



Magnitudine faspe plures pedes fuperat ; maxi- 

 mus , quem vidi , frutex bipedalis fuit , imo trun- 

 co digiti craffitiem aequans. — Stirps ereftifli- 

 ma , teres ; Truncus in aliquot ramos rigide afcen- 

 dentes indeterminate fiiTus. Truncus aeque ac 

 rami, ramulls creberrimis , fetaceis, longis, ar- 

 re&is , ( ficcatione difFufis ) , diftiche, fed inor- 

 dinate difpofltis, flexilibus , ruditer pinnati.— - 

 Lignum rigidum, fragile, corneo-lignofum, fu- 

 fcefcens, Jaxe lamellofum. Cortex crafTus, ftriis 

 obfoletis, flexuofis rudis ; calcareus, cinereo pur- 

 purafcens. Pori majufculi, fimplices , paffim , ple- 

 rumque tamen difliche, fparfi. Antiquatus cor- 

 tex cinerafcit ; fpecimina albo , vel flavente tar- 

 taro incruftata faepius occurrunt. 



Locus : Mare Americanum, Mediterraneum. 



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