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iuong. It is foun^ in the Mediterranean, and is not half 

 an nieh long. 



Crisp A. This fpecics is very much branched, dichoto- 

 mous, elongated, and crifp, with depreded ovate joints, 

 funiifhed with cells on one fide. It inhabits the Eait, is 

 large, flexile, and of a pale-grey colour. 



FloccosA. This is very much branched, dichotomous, 

 faftigiate, with wedge-lhaped joints, having cells on one fide. 

 This is found chiefly in the Indian ocean ; is large, whitifh, 

 with greyifli iicxile joints. 



* Repiass. Denticles alternate, two-toothed ; the 

 branches are dicholomous and creeping. This is found in the 

 European feas, adhering to the Flullra foliacea ; it is not an 

 inch long ; white or pale-grey. 



Parasitica. The denticles of this fpecies are verti- 

 cillate, turbinate, ciliate, and parafitical. It is found in the 

 Mediterranean and North feas, adhering to other fertu- 

 lari« and corallines ; in colour it is dull red, with terminal 

 denticles. 



* Ciliata. Denticles alternate, ciliate, funnel-form ; 

 branches dichotomous and ereft. It inhabits the European 

 feas, on marine fubftanccs ; not half an inch high ; it is 

 whitifti ; the cells have wide mouths. 



* Eburnea. The denticles are alternate, truncate, a 

 little prominent ; the veficles are gibbous, with a tubular 

 beak on one fide ; the branches fpreading. This inhabits 

 the European and Mediterranean feas, and is found growing 

 upon other fertularise and fuci ; is about an inch high, and 

 white. 



* Cornuta. The denticles are alternate and truncate, 

 with a fingle hair on the top of each ; the veficles are 

 gibbous, with a tubular beak ; the branches are alternate. 

 This inhabits, like the lall and two following, the Euro- 

 pean and Mediterranean feas, on fuci ; it is ftony, clear 

 white, and not half an inch long. The denticles are curved, 

 tapering towards the bafe, and placed on each other. 



LoRlCATA. Denticles in a concatenate row, pointing 

 one way, with a margined moutli, horned beneath ; the 

 branches are alternate. It is found on fuci. The denticles 

 are like inverted horns placed on each other, with a fhort 

 hair on the top. 



* Anguina. The flemis very fimple, without denticles, 

 but befet with very fimple, obtufe, clavate arms, each with 

 a lateral opening. This is found climbing up marine fub- 

 ftances ; it is white, foft, flexile, varying in form, and 

 appears to conneft the fertulariae and hydrae ; the arms are 

 teftaceous. 



Cereoides. Denticles imbricate, with fomewhat pro- 

 minent mouths; the ilem is branched, jointed, and cylindii- 

 cal. It inhabits the coalt of Africa 

 whitifh, ftony, aggregate, with fhort joints. 



TuLiPlKEKA. Cells in threes on the upper part of the 

 joints, and united together ; Hem branched, with clavate 

 joints. It inhabits the Well Indies, adhering to fuci, 

 about half an inch high, and clear white ; the ftem is llony 

 and fubdiaphanous ; the cells are terminal. 



Flaeellum. This fpecies is Itony, branched, jcintcd, 

 dichotomous ; the joints are fomewhat wcdge-lhapcd, and 

 have cells on one fide. It inhabits the Bahama illands, is 

 about two inches high, white, growing in tufts ; the joints 

 are convex and flriate on one fide ; the others are flat, with 

 a triple row of cells. 



* Teu.vata. Branched, dichotomous, jointed, creep- 

 ing ; the joints arc angular at their fides, v.-ith three cells in 

 the fro.nt of each. It inhabits the fliores of Scotland ; it 

 it ftony, femitranfparent. 



CnutATA, Stony, jointed, flat, dichotomous, incurved. 



is three inches high ; 



the joints are fubciliate, ovate, truncate, flat, and having^ 

 ceUs on one fide. It inhabits the Indian ocean, is about 

 two inches high, and is white ; th.- joints are convex, and 

 ftriate on one furface ; the other is flattened, with a double 

 row of cells. 



Opuntioides. Branches in threes, with cylindrical 

 joints, covered with flightly prominent pores. It inhabits the 

 Eaftern ocean ; is about half an inch high, ered, very 

 much branched, white, ftony, with the pores difpofed in a 

 quincunx form. 



SERVA, in Geography, a town of Perfia, in Segeftan ; 

 I So miles S.S.W. from Zareng. 



SERVAGE. See Service. 



SERVAL, in Zoology. See Felis Serval. 



SERVAN, in Geography, a town of France, in the 

 department of the lUe and Vilaine, and chief place of a 

 canton, in the diftrift of St. Malo. The place contains 8836,' 

 and the canton 10,617 inhabitants, on a territory of 50 kili- 

 ometres, in 4 communes. 



SERVANDONI, John Nicholas, in Biography, an 

 eminent architeft, was born at Florence in 169J. He 

 was employed by feveral of the fovereigns in Europe on 

 occafions of magnificent pubhc fpeftacles, in which he 

 difplayed a very fertile invention, with noblenefs of ideas, 

 and a corredl tafte. At Paris he had the direftion of the 

 theatre during 18 years, and was architeft, painter, and 

 decorator to the king ; and was admitted member of the 

 feveral academies of arts. He gave a number of defigns 

 for the theatres of Drefden and London, and was fent for 

 to the latter capital on the rejoicings for peace in 1749. He 

 prefided at the grand fettivals exhibited at the court of 

 Vienna, on the marriage of the archduke .lofeph and the 

 princefs of Parma. The king of Portuj^-al frequently em- 

 ployed him, and honoured him with the ordi.-r of Ghrift. 

 He died at Paris in 1766, having acquired the reputation 

 of being the firft artift of the period in which he flourilhed. 

 As an architeft he has left a fine fpecimen of his tafte in the 

 portico and front of the church of St. Sulpice. 



SERVANT, Servus, a term of relation, fignifying a 

 perfon who owes and pays a limited obedience for a certain 

 time to another, in quality of mafter; in contradiitinftion to 

 ^ave, over whofe life and fortune the mafter claims an abfo- 

 lute and unhmited power. See Slave. 



The firft fort of fervants, acknowledged by the laws of 

 England, comprehends mfn/Vi/ fervants ; fo called from being 

 intra mania, or domejlics. The contraft between them and 

 their mafters arifes upon the hiring : if tiie hiring be general, 

 without any particular time limited, the law conltrues it to be 

 hiring for a year (Co. Litt. 42. F. N. B. 168.) ; but the 

 contraft may be made for any larger or fmaller term. 

 All fingle men between twelve years of age and fixty, and 

 married ones under thirty years of age ; and all fingle 

 women between twelve and forty, not having any vifible 

 livelihood, are compellable by two jufticcs to go out to fervice 

 in hufbandry, or certain fpecific trades, for the promotion 

 of honeit induftry : and no mafter can put away his fcrvant, 

 or fcrvant leave his mafter after being fo retained, either 

 before or at the end of his term, without a quarter's warn- 

 ing, unlefs upon rcafonable caufe, to be allowed by ajullice 

 of the peace (ftat. 5 Eli/., c. 4.) ; but they may part by 

 confcnt, or make a fpecial bargain. 



Another fpecies of fervants includes thofe called appren- 

 tices (which fee): a third fort belongs to that clals denomi- 

 iialed labourers. See Ladour and Labouuers. 



And there is a fourth fpecies, if they may be called fer. 



vants, being rather in a fnperior capacity of^ fervice ; fi:ch 



as itewards, faftors, and bailiffs, whom, however, the law 



S f 2 confidtrs 



