'WORMS. ZOOPHYTA. 75. Flustra. 209 



Ab'out 2 or 3 inches high, yellowish, growing something in 

 the shape of a Cock's comb. 



674. Sp. palmata. Palmate, with finger-like divisions 

 round the surface, \vooly : pores a little prominent, 

 irregularly disposed. 



- Soland. and Ellis Zooph fr. 189. . 10. tab. 58. /. 6. 



Reddifh inclining to yellow, soft and woolly, with the divifions 

 a little subdivided at the top. 



675. Sp. botryoides. Very tender, branched, consisting 

 of clusters of oval tubercles open at the top. 



Soland. and Ellis Zooph. p. 190. n. 12. t, ^B.f. 1-4. 



Bright shining white, in irregular mafses, like bunches of 

 . - Jf a P c s ; the surface when highly magnified, appearing a$ if covered 

 with mafses of 3-rayed spihous stars. 



676. Sp. lacustris. Uniform, creeping, brittle, with erect 

 cylindrical obtuse branches. 



Spongiaramosa fluviatilis. Ray Hist. 81. 



At the bottom of lakes, covered with scattered pores, in which 

 are sometimes found, during the ''Autumn, fmall shining bluish 

 globules, about the size of the seeds of thyme, which glitter in the 

 llatne of a candle. Thefe are probably extraneous bodies. 



75. FLUSTRA. Hornicrack. Sea Mat. 



677. Fl. foliacea. Foliaceous, branched, with rounded 

 wedge-shaped divisions. 



llis Corall. p. jq. t. zg.jig. a. A-E. 



Adhering to shells, about 6 inches high, pale yellowish, porous 

 on both furfaces, with' rounded 4-toothed cells. 



678. Fl. truncata. Foliaceous, branched, with linear 

 truncate subdivisions. 



Ellis Corall. p. 69. tab. <&.jig. a. A. B. 



About 5 inches long, pale yellowish-brown, with slender 

 branches, porous both sides, with oblong-fquare cells. 



679. Fl.pilosa. Foliaceous, variously branching, with 

 a setaceous tooth on the lower part of each pore. 



llis Corallines p. 7 3. tab. 31. 



Found incrusting various Fuci and Sertulariae, whitish, porous 

 both sides, with round cells-. 



680. Fl. chartacea. Papyraceous,, branched, with cells 

 on bdth sides ; the tops of the .branches truncate 

 like the edge of an axe. 



Splander and Ellis Zoophytes p. 1 3. ft. 4. 



Thin, semitranfparent, like fine paper, very light straw-colour; 

 the tops of the branches fometimes digitated, iouietimes irregu- 

 larly divided: cells oblong-fquare, swelling out a little in the 

 middle each side, defended by a helmet-like figure. 



681. Fl. carbasea. /. Foliaceous, subdivided, with the 

 cells in single layers. 



Soland. and Ellis Zooph. p. 14. n. 5. tab. $.f. 6. 7. 



Thin like a piece of lawn, yellowish-brown: cells large, ovate 

 above truncate beneath, the walls furrounding them appealing to 

 be formed of a slender tube. 



082. Fl. dentata. Foliaceous, parasitical, with shining 

 oval cells in single layers, each witli an jnglined 

 toothed mouth. 

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