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doubly pinnate ; joints somewhat compressed, longer than their diameter, enlarged 

 upwards ; the short lateral shoots cylindrical, with longer joints, the ultimate pointed 

 or capitate. Officinal Coralline. 

 C. officinalis, Linn. ; Soland. Zooph. 118, t. 23, f. 14, 15; Turt. Lin. iv. 671; Turt. 

 Brit. Faun. 211 ; Stew. Elem. ii. 439 ; Lam. Hist. Nat. ii. 328 ; Lamour. Corall. 127 ; 

 Bosc, Vers, iii. 77, t. 28, f. 2, a bad copy of Ellis's; Flem. Brit. Anim. 514; Hogg's 

 Stockton, 38 ; Loud. Journ. 1, 278, f. 148, d ; Stark, Elem. ii. 426, t. viii. f. 4, a copy of 

 Ellis's ; Grant, in Edin. Phil. Journ. xiv. 183. 

 Coralline anglica, Ger. Herb. 1572, cum fig.; Raii Syn. 33, No. 1. 

 Muscus corallinus albus et purpureus, Sib. Scot. ii. lib. quart. 55. 

 Coralline of the shops, Ellis, Corall. 48, t. xxiv. No. 2, a. 

 Hob. On rocks in pools left by the recess of the tide, most abundant. 

 From one to four inches high, of a dull purplish colour when recent, but becoming very 

 white when left to bleach on the shore. Many modern naturalists of eminence are of opinion 

 that the Corallinae belong to the vegetable kingdom (as Baster always maintained in 

 opposition to Ellis), an opinion which has been much strengthened by the observations of 

 Professor Schweigger of Konigsberg. — See the Edin. New Phil. Journal, vol. i. p. 220. 

 I have made many experiments on our species both when recent, and after being macerated 

 in weak acids, but I could never detect the slightest vestige of any animal or polype. 



