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ACETABULUM i. CW*? fmiplici, cyatho Jlriato & quqfifubcaliculato, 





The fmall flendcr ftalked Acetabulum. 



This delicate little plant is frequent about all the harbours of the Ifland ; it grows 

 in clutters, and rifes from a fimple cruftaceous root by which it flicks to the /tones. 

 Its ftalk or fhank is fmall and flender, and the cup rather of a conic form with the 



bafe upwards; andfeemsas if it were fuftained by a few fmall protuberances that 



Hand at the top of the fhank in the form of an irreg 



When this pi 



taken frefh out of the water it is fluxiie, and elaflic ; but when it continues for any 



time in the open 

 gitudinally. 



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grows more {tiff 



fragil : the cup is always filiated 



Minor mollis & jlexili 



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mtertextis. 



ijjimis equalib 



Spong 



Minor & mollior medullce panis Jimilis, £?<v SI. Cat. p. 7. & H 



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The fmalleft foft and downy Spung 





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This little plant is frequently obferved about Jamaica; and, in texture and appear 

 ance, refembles the inward part of fine white bread* 







SPONGIA 2. Minor £? tenuior mollis, cellulata. 



The fmalleft foft Spunge with large cells. 



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This fpecies is as common as the foregoing, but feems of a more porous or cellu 

 lar ftru&ure, though equally fine. 







SPONGIA 3. Minor Jibrofa , fbrt 's fubequalibus temiibus& fexilibus 



tenuiterque intertextis. 



The Gne fibrous /mall and} flexile Spunge. 





This is a beautiful even mafs, compofed of very delicate fibres loofely connected 

 together. It is of a more reticulated and interwoven texture than either of the fore- 



going fpecies. 



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SPONGIA 4, Fiftulofa, jlexili s & Jibrofa major -, fibris inequalibus 



laxe intertextis, exterioribus craffioribus reticulatis. 

 Spongia Dura, feu fpuria major alba fijlulofa Jibris craffioribus. SI. Cat. p. 6. 



Spongia 



Tubulofa /implex. L. Sp. PI. 



The coarfe reticulated yielding Spunge. 



This plant has fomething of the texture and appearance of a coarfer brown bread, 

 or of the bark of fome tree in a macerated flate. 



SPONGIA 



5 . Fijlulofa major, jlexili s, porofa & prominulata. 



Spongia Turbinate cava. L. Sp. PI. 



Spongia Dura, feu fpuria fuperficie, apicibus acutis exafperata. SI. Cat. 7 



& H. t. 23. f. 4. 



The larger porous and warted hollow Spunge. 



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