The Bed Coral 



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The Zoophytes were placed by Linnseus in two divisions. 

 The stony branches of the first division, which have the 

 general appellation of coral, are full of hollow cells, which 

 are habitations of the animals. The next division con- 

 sists of such Zoophytes as have softer, fleshy, or horny, 

 stems, and in which the individual polypes are, as it were, 

 amalgamated with their common plant-like habitation. 



Magnified branch, exhibiting the Animals. Gorgonia Nobilis. 



THE EED CORAL. 



THE CORAL, or Gorgonia, is a hard, stony, branched, and 

 cylindrical substance, which is formed at the bottom of 



