623 WORxMS. ZOOPHYTA. 90. Madiepora. 



Plott Nat. Hifi. ofOxfordfi. tab. 2. /*. 7. 



EiWs Hi/}. o/FoJJiles.tab. 7. 



Guett. Mem. 2. /. 435. & 3. p. 508. tab. 49./. 2. 



Volkm. (ilef.fubt. p. 120. tab. iS.fg. II. 



Schr'ast. Einl. in Verji. 3. p. 461, ta£. 9,^. 3. 



Found foffile : ^r^/hemilphsrical :y?«rj with 1 2 contingent ray?. 



Undulate. Stars large, elevated, with elongated curved rays. 

 Bourg. pelr. ^.f, 33, Knorr petr % ii. 2. /. F. vi.f, I. 

 C&rf/. M^fc. 2./>. 441. 3. ^.491. /*£. 40./^ 1. 

 Found foffile: #ari 5 or b lines wide, with about 24 rays. 



Solida. Stars every where contiguous, with united membranaceous 

 margins. 



Forftc. fn. uSgypt. Arab. p. 131. 



Inhabits the Red Sea, where it forms vail: rocks, and is ufed in 

 building and burnt into lime : Jlars concave, with a very thin 

 brittle margin : gills fometimes radiate, fometimes only mar- 

 ginal : centre orbicular and rough with a row of fmall tubercles, 



ftlonile. Stars funnel-forrn> without dillc, covered with gills and 

 divifions; gills equal, radiant, denticulate and conti- 

 nued into the next liar. 

 Forjk.fn. ABg. Arab. p. 133. ».6. 



Found foffile in Arabia: liars as large as a pea, the centre lefs 

 than a muftard-feed. « 



Daidalica. Stars fomewhat hexagonal, with united reticulate divifions 

 toothed internally and at the margin. 

 Fcrjk. fn. j£g* Arab. /. 1 3 3 • ». 7 . 

 Inhabits the Red Sea: liars fnowy, very thin and toothed within, 



Monofiriata Divifions between the old ftars elevated into rough lanceo- 

 late tongue-fhaped proceffes. 



Forjk.fn. JEg. Arab. p. I 33. n. 8. 



Inhabits the Red Sea: fpongy, tough, fnowy. 



Contignatio Flattifh, orbicular, with linear (Tars at the circumference, 

 tending to the centre, the middle ones ovate, divaricate 

 and nearly contiguous. 

 Forjk.fn. JSg. Arab. p. 134. #. 9. 

 Inhabits the Red Sea ; often a foot in diameter, 



Cri/iata, Corals ventrjeofe-conic, finooth, rough towards the tip; 



ftars angular-rounded labyrinthic and furnilhed witty 



alternately fhorter rows of gills. 

 Efper Pfiar.z, 3. p. 150. n. 24. tab, 26. 

 Inhabits fhores of China. 



