234 CORAM .IMA OFFICINALIS. 



theorists seem to regard iodine as its active principle. It may be 

 given in a dose from 31. to Siifc mixed with some aromatic. 

 Off. Prkp. — Spongia usta, L. D. 



CORALLINA OFFICINALIS. 



Officinal Coraline. 

 Pl. XXX. fig. 1. 



Order Corticifera, Lamarck. Fam. Corallinad^c. 



Gen. Char. Pol ypifcr oils mass fixed, much branched, 

 composed of a central axis, and an interrupted in- 

 crustation ; axis filiform, inarticulated, solid, car- 

 talaginous or horny ; incrustation calcareous, dense, 

 united at the surface without distinct cells, interrupted 

 and as if jointed longitudinally j polypi unknown. 



Spec. Char. Trichotomous, greenish or redish coloured; 

 branches pinnated; pinnulce distichous, cylindrico- 

 clavate, the terminal ones sub-capitate ; joints of the 

 stem and branches wedge-shaped, compressed. 



C officinalis; Syst. Nat. Gmel. 3838; Mull. Zool. Dan. 3056; Ellis, Coral. 

 t. 24, n. 2, f. a. A. t. 8, f. 4; Lumour. Polyp. Flexib. p. 283 ; Lamar. Anim. 

 Sans. Verieb. ii. p. 233 ; liaii, Hist. p. 65; Dale, Pharm. p. 112. 



La coraline officinale ou blanche, Fr ; Coralina, It.; Das Korallem os, Ger. ; 

 Koi almossa, Swed. 



The Officinal Coraline, placed in the class Zoophita, is a marine 

 production, common on rocks and shells, in shallow water, on all 

 our coasts. It resembles a small plant without leaves, consisting of 

 several jointed branches, generally of greenish or reddish colour ; 

 and it appears, from the experiments of Professor Scheweigger, of 

 Konigsberg, to be only a calcined vegetable. M. Lamouroux, 



