586 CORALS, 
colour than any other parts of the animal, being almost invariably a rich 
b.ue, just like a set of turquoises placed arounu the disc. These, however, 
are occasiunally subject to cuange, aud lose all colour, looking like pearls 
rather than turquoises. : 
LEAVING the sca-anemones, we now proceed to the next tribe, the Caro- 
phyliiacex, in which there are many tentacles, in two or more series, and 
the cells many-raved, Many of these beings deposit a corallum; but out 
of our British species, more than one-third are without tuis chalky support. 
The ENDIVE CURAL is so calied from the resemblance which its corallum 
bears to the crumpled leaves of that vegetable, “1 he animal has no tentacles, 
andthe cells are smail, conical, and ratuer oblique. |! he corallum is fixed, 
sharply edsed, and expanded from the base to the tip All the living 
members of this pretty genus are to be found in the East and West Indian 
seas. 
The three figures which occupy the left hand of the illustration represent 
DEVONSHIRE CuP-coRAT,.—(Carophallia Smithii.) 
(With side buds.) TuRT CORAL.—(Lofhothdia prolifera.) 
DEVONSHIRE CUP-CORAL.—(and skeleton.) © ENDIVE-CORAL.—(Luphyliia pavonia.)- 
one of our few native Corals, shown under three aspects. The large, rounded 
figure in the lower corner exhibits the DEVONSHIRE CUP CORAL as it 
appears when the tentacles are fully expanded; that to the right shows the 
dead stony corallum of the same species, and the upper figure is given for 
the purpose of exhib.ting the curious manner in which it multiplies itself 
by throwing off buds from its sides. It is not a very large, but it is a very 
pretty species, the colour of the corallum being generally pure translucent 
white, sometimes tinged with a delicate rosy hue, while that of the living 
animal is pearly white, variegated with rich chestnut and the palest imagin- 
able fawn. 
