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CORAL-REEFS, 



to feel less surprise at this fact, as Caryophyllia alone of the 

 lamelliform genera, ranges far beyond the tropics ; it is 



which those corals and corallines can live, which there is no reason to 

 suppose ever materially aid in the construction of a reef. 



Name of Zoophyte. 



Sertularia 



Cellaria 

 ,, A minute scarlet encrust- 

 ing species, found living 

 ,, An allied, small stony 

 sub -generic form 

 A coral allied to Vincularia, 

 with eight rows of cells . 

 Tubulipora, near to T. patima . 



Do. do. 



Cellepora, several species, and 



allied sub-generic form 

 Ditto . 

 Ditto . 

 Eschara 

 Ditto . 

 Retepora 



Depth in 

 Fathoms. 



Ditto 



Millepora, a strong coral with' 

 cylindrical branches, of a 

 pink colour, about two 

 inches high, resembling in 

 the form of its orifices M. 

 aspera of Lamarck . 



Coralium 



Antipathes . 



Gorgonia (or an allied form) . 



40 

 Ditto 



190 



48 



40 



Ditto 



94 



40 

 40 and 5; 

 48 

 30 

 48 

 40 



100 



94 and 30 



120 



16 



160 



Country and S. 

 Latitude. 



Cape Horn 60° 

 Ditto 



Keeling At. 12° 



S. Cruz Riv. 50° 



Cape Horn 

 Ditto 

 East Chiloe 43° 



Cape Horn 



Chonos Arch. 45° 



S. Cruz 50° 



Tierra del Fue°x> 53° 



S. Cruz R. 50° 



Cape Horn 



C. Good Hope 34 ; 



E. Chiloe 43°, Tierra 

 del Fuego 53° 



Barbary 33° X. 



Chonos 45° 



[ Where none 

 is given, the 

 observation is 

 my own.] 



Authority. 



/ Quoy & Gai- 

 j rnard, Ann. 

 i Seien. Nat., 

 ( t. vi. p. 284. 



/"Peyssonel in 

 I pa per read to 

 | Roval Soc, 

 (May 1752. 



/Cp. Beechey 

 informed me 



\ coast of Brazil 18° 



1 of this fact 



[in a letter. 



Ellis {A T at. Hist, of Coralline, p. 96) states that Ombellularia was 

 procured in lat. 79 N. sticking to a line from the depth of 236 fathoms ; 

 hence this coral either must have been floating loose, or was entangled 

 in stray line at the bottom. Off Keeling atoll a compound Ascidia 

 (Sigillina) was brought up from 39 fathoms, and a piece of sponge, 

 apparently living, from 70, and a fragment of Nullipora also apparently 



