2G6 WORMS. ZOOPHYTA. 71. 72. 



649. C. putnicosa. Parasitical, very brittle, consisting of 

 prominent cells unarmed at the mouth. 



Ellis Corallines p. 75. tab. 27. f. f. F ( 



Refembles the last, but is more brittle, lefs globular, and the 

 mouths of the cells are not invested with fpines. 



71. ISIS. Coral 



650* I. jEnfrocfoz. Stem testaceous, cylindrical, with 

 -orbicular perforated joints, and whorled forked 

 branches. 



Encyclop. Pertkensis tab. 1 37 . Jig. 22. 



"Mest frequently found petrified. Stem about the thicknefs of a 

 finger, with crowded flat orbicular joints perforated in the centre.; 

 the perforation pentangular, with the disk--faintly striate from the 

 centre : outer-bark or flesh unequal, And fuwounded with a row 

 o,f tubercles : branches thin, forked, continued and not jointed, lit 

 is probable therefore, that thofe fossile bodies called Entrochi^ are 

 petrified fpecimens of this coral. 



72. GORGONIA. Sea-fan. 



65 i . G. Placomus. Branching both ways, with flexumis 

 rarely anastomosing branches covered with conic 

 . ^- florets. 



Ellis Catrnt.p.6?:t. 27, /..^ Borlase Cdmw.t. 24.7. i. 



Coral erect, 2 feet high or more, woody, yellow, red or grey : 

 tanches flattish, bending irregularly towards each other, and rarely 

 uniting : JlQrets wartrlike, furrounded at the top with fmall 



fpines. 



652. G. viminatis. Slender, branched : florets seated all 

 round the stem, each with a large valve and several 

 smaller-ones. 



Sow. Miscell. t. 40. Seland. and Ell. Zooph. t. I2.f.i. 



Coral a foot high, with a yellow bark and black horny bone : 

 branches long, slender: Jlorets white, a little prominent, with 

 8 claws. 



653. G. verrucosa. Bifariously branched, with round 

 flexuous branches, and a whitish calcarious bark 

 covered with whitish prominent florets. 



Philosop. Transact. 44. p. 51. t. 20. and 50. t, 34.7. 19. a. 



Coral a foot and a half high or more, fan-shaped, dirty white or 

 grey when dried : bone of a fubstance between wood or horn. 



654. G. Anceps. Slightly branched, with flat stem and 

 branches, each with a row of florets along both the 

 margins. 



Ellis CoraLp. 68. tab* ^.f. g. 2, 



Coral nearly 2 feet high, of a fine violet-colour when recent, 

 yellowish or whitish when dry: bone roundish, finall at the ends, 

 of a horny or leathery texture. 



655. G. Flabellum. Reticulate, with the branches com- 

 pressed OD the inner-side : back yellow or purplish : 

 bone black, horny and slightly striate on the larger 

 branches. 



Venus's Fan. Ellis Coral. p. 61. tab. 26. A. 



Grows foraetimcs to fcveral feet high and expands into a large 

 furface, fleshy, horny, black, clothed when fresh with a whitish or 

 grey bark : pores irregularly placed, but generally in the form of 

 quincunx ; frM and Jra/icAw- pinnate; and by means of the f illcr 



