12 Natural Hiftory of 



Fig. A, in the fame Plate, fliews a Part of it magnified. 



I have not yet received any Specimens with Veficles, fo 

 perfed as to be able to defcribe them. 



This was lately taken up, among other Sea Produdionsj 

 by the FiOiermen near the Harbour o^ Dublin. 



Plate VII. N°. II. Corallina Mufcofa pennata ramulis &' capillajnen- 

 Fis- a. i tisfalcatis. R. S. N°. i6. p. 36. 

 Sickle Coralline. 



This elegant feathered Coralline adheres to Rocks and 

 Shells by little wrinkled Tubes, and rifis from thence into 

 eredl waved Stems, which are furrounded fromBottom to Top 

 with pennated Branches ; the fmaller Divifions of thefe have 

 Rows of little Denticles, or Teeth, on the Side ; and bend 

 inward, as they become dry, in the Form of a Sickle. 



Fig. a-, N°. II. reprefents the natural Appearance of 

 this Coralline. 



•The Veficles are nearly of an inverted oval Shape, broad 

 at Bottom, and* narrower at Top where the Opening is ; fome 

 ■ of them appear, as if they had a Calyx like a Flower at the 

 Bottom of the Veficle : Moft of the dry'd Specimens, I have 

 yet feen, have had an Orange- colour'd vifcid Subftance in 

 them, which feems of the fame Nature with the Contents of 

 the reft. 



Fig. A^ is Part of a Branch, with its fmaller Ramifications 

 like Sickles, and its Veficles magnified. 



This Coralline is common on the Coaft of Kent^ near 

 Sheernefs, in the Ifland o{ Sheppey 3 and on the Shores of many 

 other Parts of thefe Kingdoms. 



N°. X2. 



