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covering various bodies, and sometimes forming stems or leaves, of 
which, in certain species, one side only is furnished with cells, and 
in others, both: their substance is more or less corneous(1). 
‘ CELLEPORA, Fab. 
Masses of small calcareous vesicles or cells, crowded one against the 
other, and each perforated by a little hole(2). 
TuspuLipora, Lam. 
Masses of little tubes, of which the aperture is as wide as the bot- 
tom, or wider(3). 
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Bodies exist in the ocean that resemble the Corals (Poly- 
piers) 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 
(1) Flustra foliacea, Gm.; Ell., Corall., XXIX, a, A;— FV. truncata, Id., XX VII, 
a, A;—FI. bombicina, Sol. and Ell., LV, b, B;—FV. carbasea, Id., II, 6, 7;— FI. pilosa, 
Ell., Corall., XX XI, a, A, b;—V. tomentosa, Miill., Zool. Dan., III, xcv, 1, 2;— 
Fl. compressa, Moll., Esch., C, 9;—FV. membranacea, Zool. Dan. ,'CXVII, 1, 2;— 
Fl. papiracea, Moll., Esch., 8;— FV. tubulosa, Bosc, XX VII, UI, xxx, 2;—/V. den- 
tata, Ell., Corall., XXIX, C, D, D;—FY. quadrata, Desmar. and Less., Bullet, 
Philom., 1814, X, v;— FV. depressa, Moll., f. 21;—Fl. épineuse;—FI. @ diademe;— 
FI. a collier; —Fl. globifere. ‘The whole four of Zool. de Freycin., pl. 89;—Fl. @ 
petit vase, Ib., 91;—FYV. gentille;—Fl. margaritifera, Ib., 92;—Fl. a grande ouver- 
ture, Ib., pl. 93, f. 6, 7;—FV. @ petits sillons;-—Fl. a gibeciére; —FI. d 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 Purrusm of Lamouroux—FV. tubulosa, 
Esper, [X, 1, 2;—his Brerenices, Lamour., Sol. and Ell., pl. LX XX, f. 1—6;—his 
Exsrin#, Ib., LXIV, 15 and 16, and other subgenera, for which see his work. 
(2) Cellepora hyalina, Gm., Cavol., Pol, Mar., III, ix, 8, 9;—C. magneville, La- 
mour., Polyp. Flex., pl. i, f. 3;—C. megastoma, Desmar., and the Bullet. Philom., 
1814, I, 5;—C. globulosa, Ib., 7;—C. annulans, Moll., Esc., 4;—C. pumicosa, Ell., 
Coral., XX VII, 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, \d., 18, A, C;—C. vulgaris, Id-, 10, A, B;—C. borniana, Id., 14, A, C;—C. 
Otto-Mulleriana, Id., 15, A, C. 
(3) Millepora tubulosa, Gm., Ell., Corall., XX VII, c, E. 
Vou. IV.—s A 
