ON THE ANATOMY OF DISTICHOPORA, 51 
w the species, for he describes and figures it in his Vat. 
Hist 5 oF Doahites p- 140. Mitiepora viotacza. IM. in plano 
ramosa, ramulis ascendentibus, Slequoaia, terett impressis, sutura 
porosa, m arginem ambiente. He adds: “ This coral is of a fine 
violet blue. It rises from a spread base about three inches high. 
Besides the line of large pores which surround the margin, there 
are two rows of small 1 pores on each side of it. The surface when 
magnified is rough like shagreen, and here and there upon it there 
are clusters of little warts, like studs or bullule, which may pro- 
bly be its ovaries. When the branches are broken across, there 
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rounded by small ones. I had form rmerly a specimen of this co 
a W. Webber, Esq., F.R.S., and very He atge some complete ones 
r. Banks and Dr. Solander, that the divers had fished up 
bowl the islands of the South Sea. ere is no reference to any 
plate, but on turning to plate 26 we find a very excellent drawing 
(fig. 3), with a slightly enlarged fie ari in fig. 4. In the ac- 
companying ee it is stated that no explanation of this 
plate was atcrega amongst Mr. Blix’ papers. Lamarck, with 
ual ace gnized the plate, and gives the following defini- 
tion: © Mitabchepae Polypiary stony, solid, attached, branched, a 
little compressed. Pores 8 unequal, marginal, disposed on the two 
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servations. I cannot avoid the necessity of separating from the 
Millepores the Mil Millepora violacea of Pallas, and forming with it a 
genus. This cora presents such singular characters in 
the form and in the disposition of its pores that although it is the 
ef ence known with this peculiarity, it is probable that others 
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any of the genera with stony polypidoms. Distichopora violacea. 
: oS aanamemeg ramulis ascendentibus, flexuosis, tereti compressis. 
Millep. violacea, Pall. se p- 258, Solander and EIL.,* p. 140. 
Habitat, Indian Ocean and Austral. My collection.” 
Teason why no aa to the plate is found in Ellis’s work is this : 
Bi vas pang the -sesittanice of Den Solander snd? 
giving sgh is died Oct. 15, 1775, when the book 
Hotini ah on towards wrth 2 was then engaged at 
a useum, and could not do much oa oa Ein E, Fothergill died 
780, Sg ee Rabe oe d to the Solander (in 1782). U: 
Maris Wares book was rig go ane in ton just as it was, by J 
att, a eeviving daughte 
