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TAB. XLI. 

 MILLEPORA compressa? 



Class 6. Vermes. Order 4. Zoophyta. 



Gen. Char. Animal a Hydra. Coral, generally, 

 ramose, with round turbinated pores. 



Spec. Char. Stem branched, compressed, truncated; 



pores everywhere a little prominent and rough. 

 Syn. Millepora compressa? Gmel. v. 1. 3785. 



1 HOUGH there are some species of coralline, much re- 

 sembling this, figured in Esper and other books, yet we can 

 by no means identify them as this species. The description 

 in Gmelin of Millepora pumila would seem to accord with 

 it; but the figure in Marsden, to which he refers, is a very 

 different thing. It may therefore be considered as a species 

 undescribed, and now first published as British. We do not 

 understand that it is uncommon on the Scottish coast, 

 especially at Aberdeen. Specimens have been sent us from 

 North Wales by favour of the Rev. H. Davles, with some 

 other curious corallines which have not been before noticed 

 as British*. We hope however to see them from other 

 places, that we may have more habitats for them. Perhaps 

 many of this curious tribe may have been overlooked. 



