APPENDIX. 



Q^LL^? oil A pumicof a. Lin?t. Syjl. Nat. 1286. 56. 

 Found on the beach at Smeerenberg. 



Synoicum ttirgens. Tab. XIIT, Fig. 3. 



Taken up in the trawl, on the North fide of Spitfbergen. 



This animal is quite new to the Natural Hiftorians, and' 

 fo different from the Zoophytes which have been hitherto 

 defcribed, that it may be confidered as a diftindt genus, 

 whofe chara6ters are the following : 



An'wialia nonnulla, ex apice finguli flirpis {q{^ ape- 

 rientia. 



Stirpes plures, radicats, carnofo-ftupofa^, e bad com- 

 muni ered^, cylindraccce, apice regulariter pro anima^- 

 libus pertuf^. 



It fhould be inferted next to the Alcyonium, with 

 which it in fome particulars agrees, but differs from it 

 materially in having the openings for the animals only at 

 the top, and the animals ihemfelves not exferted like 

 polypes (Hydra) which is the cafe in the Alcyonium. 



Description. 



Stirpes plures, radicatce, carnofo-ftupoftc, digitiformes, 

 cylindraceaj, fuperne paulo craffiores, obtuiie, niagni- 

 tudine digiti infantis, fubereft^, apice orificiis nonnullis 

 perforata?, inferne dilatatas feu explanata^ in bafin com- 

 muneni lapidibus adhcerentem. 



Orijicia 



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