216 BRITISH CORALLINES : 



1. CORALLINA, Lin. 



Corallina, Lamour. Cor. Flex. 275 : Gray, Bt. PI. i. 339 ; 

 Flem. Brit. Anim. 514 : Blainv. Man. 547 — Les Corallines 

 propres, Cuv. Reg. Anim. iii. 305. 



Character. F7'ond branched in a trichotomous man- 

 nevy corticiferous ; the crust calcareous., homogeneous, un- 

 porous, articulated at short and regular intervals ; the 

 axis suhcartilaginous, solid., constricted at intervals corre- 

 sponding to the articulations of the crust : Fructification 

 — oblong seminiferous granules contained in capsular swel- 

 lings produced on the extremities or in the axils of the 

 branchlets. 



]. C. OFFICINALIS, " the short lateral shoots of the 

 branches rounded, and blunt or capitate.'"' 

 Plate XXII. 



Corallina anglica, Ger. Herb. 1572. Merrctt, Pin. 30. Baii, Hist, 

 i. 65. Syn. 33,no. i C. alba sive muscus marinus, i)/er. Pin. 30. 



Muscus corallinus albus et purpureus, Sih. Scot. 111. ii. lib. iv. 55. 



Coralline of the shops, Ellis, Corall. 48,-no 2, pi. 24, fig. a, A, B. 



Corallina officinalis, Lin. Syst. edit. x. 805. Pall. Elench. 422. 

 Lin. Syst. 1304. Ellis in Phil. Trans. Ivii. 419, pi. 17, fig. 12, 

 13. Lin. Corresp. i. 201. Soland. Zooph. 118, pi. 23, fig. 14, 



