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The LARGE WHITE FINE-RAYED.STAR-COoRAL. 
T HIS is very often of a confiderable Bulk, and its Surface thickly 
crouded with very fmall Stars, whofe Rays.are fearce perceptible 
to the naked Eye. © ; 
The KNotty STAR-BEAMED CORAL. 
ek IS is to be found on all our Shores, and very much re- 
fembles that of the fame Cla& found in the Mediterranean by 
Dr. Shaw, with this Difference only, that the Extremities of this are of 
a blunt conic Shape, 
The TuButar Corat. 
TH IS fpreads into feveral thick fhort Branches ftudded all over 
with innumerable {mall open-mouthed Tubes, the Whole generally 
ef a brownith Colour without, and white within. : 
The CoMMON Brain-STONE CorAL: 
Fungus coralloides encephaloides, gyris in medio Sulcatis, lamellatis, 
Jerratis.  Boerh. Ind. Plant. Peas : 
Lapis fungites cerebriformis. _ Ray’s Hift. App..p. 1850. 
'T HIS, as do many others of the fame Species, derives its Name from 
its Refemblance to the human Brain, the waving white Ribs rifthe 
higher than the intermediate Spaces: Thefe Stones are to be feen very 
common on all our Sea-fhores, as well as on the Land, efpecially about 
Black Rock, in St. James’s Parith, and generally near the Sea. 
The LARGE-RAYED BRAIN-STONE. 
Fungus coralloides, laminis magis undulatis. Boerh. Ind. Plant. p. 2. 
6 bu: IS hath its feveral finuated Rifings and ‘Depreflions intirely 
rayed, whereas thefe Rifings in all other Kinds of Brain~fones are 
fo many folid Veins dividing the porous Part into many ‘finuated In- 
terftices, 
What is called here the fine ribbed Brain-frone differs from the above 
by having many hard finuated Veins running through it, and rifing 
higher than its porous Interftices. : 
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