24 Natural Hiftory of 



of which fupport a Cup of a bell-fhaped Figure, curioufly 

 indented round the Brim ; thefe are placed in fuch a man- 

 ner as to correfpond exadtly in Point of Situation with the 

 others, and to give the whole very much the Appearance of 

 the Plant called Horfe-tail, or Equifetum ; the capillary Stalks 

 and their Cups being all difpofed in Whirls, or like Branches 

 for Candles, 



Fig. ay N". 20. Plate XIII. gives us the Figure of this Co- 

 ralline as it was received. 



Fig. y^, fhews a magnified Part of one of the Branches dif- 

 covering 5 Tubes, which compofe the Stalk, and 5 twifted 

 Stalks with their Cups at equal Diftances in each Whirl. 



Plate XIV. N°. 21. Corallina minima fcandeiu^ vejiculas campanifo?'mes 

 Fig. a. A. j^j ftunfno caule li?ieari contorto gerens. 



Small climbing Coralline with bell-fliaped Cups. 



This very minute Coralline arifes from fmall irregular 

 Tubes, which adhere to, and twine about, other Corallines, 

 particularly the Sickle Coralline. 



Exceeding fmail twifted Stalks go out from this tubular 

 Stem, which fupport little bell-fhaped Cups with indented 

 Brims : At the Bottom of each, where they join to the Stalk, 

 the Microfcope difcovers to us a very minute Spherule, or little 

 Ball, as in fome Drinking-glaiTes. I had the Pleafure while 

 I was at Brighthelmjlone in Ju7^e 1754, of feeing the Ani- 

 mals of this Coralline extending their Claws, or "Tentaculi^ and 

 moving their Stems : One of thefe as it appeared to us in the 

 Microfcope, is defcribed at the upper Part of the Fig. A^ 

 plate XIV. Their natural Size, as they adhere to the Sickle 

 Coralline, may be feen at Fig. ^, N°. 21. 



This 



