642 WORMS. ZOOPHYTA. 93. Ifi. 
Dichotoma. Stem coralline, with fmooth joints and decorticated junc- 
tures. 
Petiv. Gaz. tab, 3. fig. 10. Seba Muf. 3. t. 106. f. 4. 
Inhabits the Indian and ZErbiepic feas ; about half a foot high, 
fomewhat flexuous: jofnts clear fleth-colour, with a cinnabar 
flefh befet with convex papilla, 
Ocbratea, Stem coralline, with decorticated joints and knotty junc- 
tures. 
Ellis Philof. l'ranfact. 50. 5. 189. tab. 3. 
Solander and Ellis Corall, p. Yos. 2.3, 
Rumpf. Amb. 6. p. 234. tab. 85. fig. 1. 
Seba Muf. 3. tab. 104. fig. 1. 
Inhabits the £af? Indies among the Spice landi: deep red, 
fometimes white with the junctures brownifh-yellow: fem 
irregularly channéiled as if eaten into: Sranches numerous, 
dichotomous, fpread : joints conneéted by deep yellow fpongy 
knobs: fef pale yellow, full of ftellate mouths: polypes with 
8 claws. 
* Entrocba, Stem teftaceous, round, with orbicular perforated joints 
and verticillate dichotomous branches. 
Inhabits the Oceaz. Stem about the thicknefs of a finger, with 
crowded flat orbicular joints perforated in the centre, the 
perforation pentangular with the difk fubftriate from the 
centre: outer bark or ffj/h unequal and furrounded with a 
row of tubercles: dranches thin, dichotomous, continued and 
notjointed. It fhould feem therefore that thofe foffile bodies 
called Entrochi, are petrified fpecimens of this fpecies of Coral. 
*Aleria. Stem teftaceous, jointed, pentagonal: branches verticillate, 
with a terminal dichotomous ftar. 
Ellis encrin. 1764. 4. tab. 15. fig. 14. 
Philofoph. Tranfact. 52. tab. 14. 
Inhabits the Ocean, and is found foflile in all parts of Europe, 
and known by. the name of the Sar. fone. 
Cerinegi Stem jointed, flender, very red and fubftriate: joints united 
by fhort yellowith fpongy junctures: flefh on the out- 
fide covered with {mall {carlet prominent cells, each 
furnifhed with a mouth. 
Solander and Ellis Corall. p. 107. t. 3. tab. V2. fr 5. . 
Inhabits the Zudzan Ocean, 2 or 3 inches high. 
Cora! very minute with irregularly fpreading branches, and is 
rarely found quite white, ; 
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