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Cellepora, Fab. 



Masses of small calcareous vesicles or cells, crowded one against 

 the other, and each perforated by a little hole*. 



TuBULiPORA, Lam. 



Masses of little tubes, of Avhich the aperture is as wide as the bot- 

 tom, -or Aviderf. 



Bodies exist in the ocean that resemble the Corals (Polypiers) of 

 which we have been speaking, both in substance and their general 

 form, but in which Polypi have not yet been discovered. Their nature 

 is consequently doubtful, and great naturalists, such as Pallas and 

 others, have considered them as plants; others, however, considered 

 them as having very small cells, and as being inhabited by corallife- 

 rous Polypi. In this case they belong to the present order. Those, in 

 which the interior is filled Avith corneous threads, still present some 

 analogy to the Ceratophyta. In the 



CORALLINA, Lin., 



We observe articulated stems placed on species of roots, and divided 

 into branches, also articulated, on the suface of which no pores can 

 be seen, and in which no Polypi have hitherto been discovered. 

 They are divided as follows. 



CoRALLiNA, proper, 

 Where the calcareous joints have a homogeneous api:)earance, and are 

 without any ajiijarent bark. 



C. officinalis. L.; Ell.,Corall.,XXIV,a, A,b,B. The bottom 

 of the sea on certain coasts is completely covered -with this coral, 

 the joints of Avhich are oboval and the ramusculi arranged like 

 pinnate leaves, bearing other branches similarly disposed. It is 



tafa, Ell., Corall., XXIX, C, D, D;— F7. qitadrafa, Desinar. and Less., Bullet. 

 Philom., 1S14, X, v; — Fl. depressa, Moll., f. 21 ; — F!. epineuse , — Fl. it diademe ,- — 

 Fl. a collier ; — Fl. (jlohiferc. The whole four of Zool. de Freycin., pi. 89 ; — Fl. a 

 petit vase, lb. 91 ; — Fl. cjentille ; — Fl. mirgaritifera, II)., 92 ; — Fl. u grande oureriwc 

 lb., pi. 93, f. 6, 7 ; — Fl. a pdits sillons ; — Fl. a gibeciere ,- — Fl. apetits nids, lb., 95, 

 and the new species figured in the great work on Egypt, Zool. Zooph., p. 7 — 10. 

 To this genus also are attached the Pherus.e of Lamouroux — Fl. fiibulosti, Esper, 

 IX, 1, 2;— his Berenices, Lamour., Sol. and Ell., pi. LXXX, f. 1—6; — his Els- 

 RiN^, lb., LXIV, 15 and 16, and other subgenera, for which see his work. 



* Cellepora hyalina, Gm., Cavol., Pol., Mar., Ill, ix, 8, 9; — C. magheville, La- 

 mour., Polyp. Flex., pi. i, f . 3 ; — C. megasioma, Desmar., and the Bullet. Philom., 

 1814, II, 5; — C. glubulosa, lb., 7; — C. aHnw/ans, Moll., Esc, 4; — C.pumicosa, Ell., 

 Coral., XXYII, F, and XXX, d, D;— C. rubra, Mull., Zool. Dan., CXLVI, 1,2;— 

 C. rudiata, Moll., Esc., 17, A, I; — C. sedecimdentata, Id., 16, A, C; — C. bimucro- 

 nata, Id., 18, A, C; — C. vulgaris. Id., 10, A, B; — C. boniiana, Id., 14, A, C ; — C. 

 Otto-Midleriana, Id., 15, A, C. 



t Millepora tubulosa, Gm., Ell., Corall., XXVII, c, E. 



