440 POLYPI. 
CevLLepora, fab. 
Masses of small calcareous vesicles or cells, crowded one against 
the other, and each perforated by a little hole*. 
Tusutipora, Lam. 
Masses of little tubes, of which the aperture is as wide as the bot- 
tom, or wider +. 
Bodies exist in the ocean that resemble the Corals (Polypiers) of 
which we have been speaking, both in substance and their general 
form, butin 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 with corneous threads, still present some 
analogy to the Ceratophyta. In the 
Coratuina, 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 appearance, and are 
without any apparent 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 which are oboval and the ramusculi arranged like 
pinnate leaves, bearing other branches similarly disposed. It is 
tata, Ell., Corall., XXIX, C, D, D;—-Fl. quadrata, Desmar. and Less., Bullet. 
Philom., 1814, X, v;—Fl. depressa, Moll., f. 21 ;—F'l. épineuse ,—Fl. & diademe ;— 
Fil. & collier ;—Fl. globifere. The whole four of Zool. de Freycin., pl. 89 ;—Fl. @ 
petit vase, Ib. 91 ;—Fl. gentille ;—Fl. margaritifera, Ih., 92 ;—Fl. & grande ouverture 
Ib., pl. 93, f. 6, 7 ;— Fl. & petits sillons sl. a gibeciére ;—F. & petits nids, Ib., 95, 
and the new species figured in the great work on Egypt, Zool. Zooph., p. 7—10. 
To this genus also are attached the PHERUSE of Lamouroux—Fi. tubulosa, Esper, 
IX, 1, 2;—his Berenices, Lamour., Sol. and Ell., pl. LXXX, f. 1—6;—his Exs- 
RIN#, Ib., LXIV, 15 and 16, and other subgenera, for which see his work. 
* Gellepora hyalina, Gm., Cayol., Pol., Mar., III, ix, 8, 9;—C. magneville, La- 
mour., Polyp. Flex., pl. i, f.3;—-C. megastoma, Desmar., and the Bullet. Philom., 
1814, II, 5;—C. globulosa, Ib., 7 ;—C. annulans, Moll., Esc., 4;—C. pumicosa, Ell., 
Coral., XXVII, F, and XXX, d, D;—C. rubra, Miill., Zool. Dan., CXLVI, 1, 2 ;— 
C. radiata, Moll., Esc., 17, A, 1;—C. sedecimdentata, Id., 16, A, C ;—C. bimucro- 
nata, Id., 18, A, C;—C. vulgaris, Id., 10, A, B ;—C-. borniana, Id.,14, A, C ;—C. 
Otto-Mulleriana, Id., 15, A, C. - 
+ Millepora tubulosa, Gm., Ell., Corall., XXVII, c, E. 
