POCILLIPORA. 219 
I. MILLEPORINA. 
** Now it is pleasant, on a summer eve, 
When a broad shore retiring waters leave, 
Awhile to wait upon the firm fair sand, 
When all is calm at sea, and still on land, 
And there the ocean’s produce to explore, 
As floating by, or rolling on the shore, 
Those living jellies, which the flesh inflame, 
Fierce as a nettle, and from that its name ; 
Some in huge masses, some that you may bring 
Tn the small compass of a lady’s ring, 
Figured by hand Divine. There’s not a gem 
Wrought by man’s art can be compared with them ; 
Soft, brilliant, tender, through the wave they glow, 
And make the moonbeam brighter where they flow.” —Cradée. 
Genus XXIII. POCILLIPORA, Lamarck. 
Gen. Char. Polypidom calcareous, fixed, plant-like, branched 
or lobed; cells scattered over the whole surface, distinct, sunk 
in little fosses, obscurely stellate, the lamellz narrow, and almost 
obsolete.—Johnston. 
1. Pocriiipora InTERSTINCTA, Dr. Hibbert. 
Hab. Zetland. 
“Cylindrical, with distant immersed stars.” (Hidéert.) 
