614 WORMS. ZOOPIIYTA. 89. Tubipora. 



ORDER IV. ZOOPHYTA. 



Compqfite animals, ejjlorefcing like vegetables, 



89. TUBIPORA. Animal a Nereis ? coral 

 confining of ere$t hollow Cylindrical pa- 

 rallel aggregate tubes, liibivore. 



Mujica. With fafciculate conne&ed tubes, and tranfverfe djftant 

 membranaceous dirTepirnents. 



Natur. Mi [cell, tab. 9$. lournef. Infl. tab. 342. 



Bauh. Hi/i. $. fig. 2. Bejl. MuJ. Lochn. tab. 23, 



Bonan Muf. Kirch, tab. 289. fig. 14. 



Moris. Hist. 3./. 15. tab* 20. fig. 22. 



Petit/. Gaz- tab. 67. fig. \o, 1 1. Ed-iv. a<v. tab. 93. 



Welj'cb Hccafi, tab. 44. I'aUnt Ind. litt. tab. 3, fig. 5. 



Buttn. Coral p. 18. tab. l>fig> 3. 



Rumpf. Amb. 6. tab. 85. fig. 2. 



•S«£« il/?//." 3. /a£. 1 10. fig. 80. Knorr delic. tab.A.$, 



Argent, conch, tab. 26, ^. A. 



Mart hi conch. I . />. 2 1. T.'/gvz. z. 

 2. Ptf//. Zooph. ed. Belg. tab. 10. /?£. 2. 



Inhabits Indian and American feas, fixed to rocks and other 

 corals: bright fcarlet, confifting of an a/Tortment of upright 

 parallel tubes rifing over each other by ilages like the cell*> of 

 an honey-comb, divided by tranfverfe partitions. The Indians 

 ufe it in cafes of ftrangury and wounds inflicled by venemous 

 animals. 



Catenulata. With parallel tubes united into an anaftomo2:ing varioufly 

 twitted kind of net-work. 

 Amaen. Acad. \.p. 1 03. tab. 4.. fi. 20. 

 Bromel. lithogr. Jp. 2. tab. 23 — 27. 

 Helb. lithogr. tab. 5. f. I — 6. tab. 6. /. i. 

 Buttn. Corallogr. tab. \. f. 2. 

 Volkm. file/, fubt. tab. 5$.fi."J. tab. 20. f. 3. 



Found call frequently on the fhores ©f the Baltic ; confifting of 

 an erect membrane not feparated by divilions, varioufly twilled, 

 with a faitigiate margin of one row of concatinate tubes, 



^Serpens. With eredl cylindrical very fhort diftant axillary tubes, and 

 a creeping dichotomous divaricate bafe. 

 Ellis CoralLp. 74. n. 6. tab. 27. fi. E. e. 

 Amain. Acad. I. p. 10^*. tab. 4. fi. 26. 

 Muf. Tejfin. tab. 3, f 3 3. Plane* conch, tab. 18. N. n. 



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