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WORMS. ZOOPHYTA. 96. Alcyonium. 
Ellis Coral. " 61. tab. 26. A. ^ Pelis. pterigr. tab, 18. f. 8. 
Befl. Muf. tab. 24.  Olar Muf. p. 09. t. 39./.2-' 
Bonan Muf Kirch. p. 226. 2. 13. fig. po 286. — 
Torrub. Hilt Hypan. tab. Yo. fig. 12. 
Marl. Hift. Mar. p. 100. tab. 197 fag 84. 
d urget Mem. Infir. tab. 23 fig D 
Knorr Dele. ta^, A. Y2. fig 1.4. A 15. f. 3,2» , 
Inhatits moil feas, and is often feveral feet high and expanded 
into a l.rge furface: flexile, horny, black, the older bark whitifh 
or grey : pores irregularly placed; but generally in the form of 
a quincuüx : trunk and branches pinnat>, and by me2ns of the 
fmaller branches blending together forming an elegant kind of 
net-work : dapes with 8 claws.” 
90. ALCYONIUM. Animal generally grow- 
ing in the form of a plant: lem fixed, 
fleihy, gelatinous, fpongy or coriaceous, 
befet with poly pe-hearing {tellate cells. 
Arbortum, Stem arborefcent, with cecal branches and papillary peu: 
Exos. 
Shaw Narar. Mifiel. tab. 334. Muf Tef 120. 6 10. 
A&. Nidrof, 4. p. 87. tab. T4 fe ir-—89.2 0 
Pontopp; Norw. p. 274, 275. tab,12. n. 4, 5 js 
Kelreut. nov. Comme Petrop. 7. 5-348. f 133» 14s) 
Inhabits the /ndran and North Seas, and grows to 6 or 7 feet in 
heighth: fefh thick, rofy, with tubercles unequally difpofed, 
within more yellow, with a whitifh harder fubítance refem- 
bling the bony ^ of a Gorgonia ; branches very rugged and 
irregular. 
Stem arborefcent, coriaceous, fcarlet and branched towards 
the top, with papillary ftars. 
Merf Hif Mar p. 85.163 tab. 11. 2.74, 75. t. 58, 39- 
Bobad. Mar. 5. Y34- tab. 9. fg. 6,7. - 
Planc. del. Senens 2. p. 222. tab. 8. f, 6-8. 
Petiv. Pl Ital tab. V. fe 25 34 
Ginarn War. A. p 48. tab 50. 
Schafer Blumenpol. 0755+ tab 3. 
Inhabits the Mediterranean, affixed to rocks and fhells, and grows 
to half a foot high and'as thick as a finger: {mooth, white 
within with a harder central fuoftence : oviparous, 
* Digitatum Without ftem, oblong, lobed, of a coriaceous wrinkled fib 
itance covered with minute papilla. Dead Man's Hand. 
Ellis Coridi, p. 85: tab. 32. fig. a A. A. 2. 
Peuoj. 1ranj. $3. t. 20. f. iQ—13«. Barr, ic. 1293, 12946 
