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WORMS. INFUSORIA. zog. Vorticlla. 695 
105. VORTICELLA. Body contractile, 
naked, and furnifhed with ciliate ro- 
tatory organs. 
A. Seated on a pedicle or ftem. 
*Racemofa. Compound, with a rigid ftem, and very much branched 
long pedicles. 
Adams Microfc. p. 563. 2. 355+ 
Inhabits ftagnant water: pedicle very long, flender, from which 
proceed an innumerable number of pellucid pearls. 
* Polypina, Compound, bell-fhaped, with retortile branched ftem. 
Shaw Natur. Mifcell. tab, 278. 
Adams SS. Kanm. Microfe. p. 563. tab. 27. f. 610 \ 
Mull. an. inf. 9. 328. tab. 46. fig. 7—9. 
Ellis Corall. tab. 13. fg. b. B. c. C. 
Trembley Phil. Tranf. 44. 5-649. tab. 1. f. 5, 6. 
Balter op. fubf. V. tab. 3. fig. 1. a--c. 
Inhabits the European teas, adhering to Fuci, and appears to the 
. naked eye like a white point. 
* Anastati- Compound, bell-fhaped, with an oblique mouth and fcaly 
ea, rigid ftem. 
Adams Microfc. p. 397. tab. 21. fig. 15—16. 
Philof. Tranf. 44. tab. 3. f. 7—9. & 49. tab. 7. f. 1—6. 
"Het. Stockh. 1746. tab. ©. fig. 4, 8. 
Needham Microfe. tab. 7. fig. 2--5. 
Inhabits frefh waters, forming a clufter branched out in various 
directions: owaries feated on the ftems in the form of bulbs, 
which detach themfelves from the (tems and fix themfelves to 
other fubftances, producing a new clutter, - 
Conglone- Compound, with jagged toothed heads and many-flowered 
rata. ftem as thick as a quill. i 
Inhabits the Jndian Ocean. Aman. Acad. 4« t. 3. f. 1. 
*Prraria, Compound, with obovate naked florets and 2 double tenta- 
cula: ftem branched. 
Adams &8. Keen. Microfe. p. 400. tab. 22. f. 25; 26. 
Roef. Inf. 3. polyp. p. 606. tab 98. f. 1, 2. d, e. 
Inhabits ftagnant waters: the bafe pellucid, the top truncate: 
lateral arms 2 each fide. 
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