ILLUSTirVTIONS xvii 



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12. Example of a Coral Colony growing as an Encrusting Layer 74 



13. Example of a Colony growing as a 'JVee-like Growth 75 

 14'. Example of an Amorphous Type of Growth 76 

 15. Vegetative Reproduction in Corals 77 

 \6. Vegetative Reproduction in Corals 78 



17. Vegetative Reproduction in Corals 78 



18. Vegetative Reproduction in Corals 79 



19. Vegetative Reproduction in Corals 79 



20. Vegetative Reproduction in Corals 81 



21. V^egetative Reproduction in Corals 83 



22. Colony of Coenopsammia Willcyi growing from the Lower 



Surface of a Boulder 85 



23. Types of Growth of Mo«/i/jor« - 88 



24. Types of Growth of Madrepora 89 



25. Tyjies of Growth of /•'oaV/oyw/Y/ 90 



26. A Colony of Po«7/oy;o/'rt 91 



27. Rough-water Type of Highly Branched Madrepora 93 



28. Upper Surface (A) and Lower Surface (B) of a Partial Plate 



Growth 95 



29. Diagram of Type of Growth of Madrepora when living in 



water free of sediment (M. pulchra^ Q6 



30. Diagram of Growth of Madrepora pulchra when living in a 



habitat exposed to the action of sediment ^6 



31. Colourless Stylopora Colony from Deep Water (8-12 fathoms) 97 



32. Colony of Pocillopora 98 



33. The Influence of Environment on Coral Growth 99 



34. Millepora Colony of the Type named complanata 102 



35. Millepora Colony of the Type named alcicornis 103 

 SQ. Young Porites Mass grown equally round a Central 



Nucleus 107 



37. Older Porites Colony in which the Lower Zooids are killed 



by Pressure 107 



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