638 WORMS. ZOOPHYTA. 91. Miilepora. 



Clathrata. Umbilicate, reticulate, with flat dichotomous anaftomifing 



branches porous on one furface. 

 Pall. el. Zoopb. p. i 45 . n. 1 49. 

 Inhabits the Indian Ocean, and appears an intermediate fpecies 



between M. cellulofa and lichenoides : white, and feated on a 



folid centre. 



Reticulum. Compofcd of very much branched anaftomoling cancellate 

 threads. 

 Inhabits the Mediterranean, covering the furfzce of (hells and the 

 roots of Fuci : refembles a fpider's web, and is compofed of . 

 fine capillary threads. 



Spongites'o Caulefcent, erecl:, with angular imbricate anaftomofmg 

 branches. 

 Muf. TeJJtn. 1 18. tab. 1 1. /*, 2. 



Inhabits refembles a fponge, about a foot long: pores not 



vifible. 



Ccriacea. Submembranaceous, femiorbicular and nearly horizontal, 

 with a few pores on the lower furface. 



Shanv Affr. app. p. 47. fig. I. 



Bcnan. Muf Kirch, tab. 289. fig. 1 6. 



Ca<vnlin. pol. mar. 3. p. 258. tao. 9 .fig. IS' 



Inhabits the Atlantic and Numidian feas, covering the Items of the 



Fucus cartilagineus, and forming covers for the chambers of 



other corals : probably not of this genus. 



CaLarea. Branched, milk-white, folid, dichdiCmous, with tapering 

 coalefcins: fubdivifions. 

 Solander and Ellis Cor all. p. 129. n. I. t. 2$.f. 13. 

 Inhabits the Mediterranean ; 4 inches high. 

 Branches growing fmaller towards the end, and generally regu- 

 larly fubdivided. 



*Polymor- Cruftaceous, folid, irregularly maped, but generally branch- 

 pha. ed and tuberculate, and without vifible pores. 



EllisCorall. p.j6. tab. 27. c. Muf. Lochn. tab. 23. 

 Borl. Corm/j.p. '293. f. 2-5. Blacknv. Herb. t. 343. 

 Solander & Ellis Cor all. p. 1 30. n. 2. 



Peti'v.pterogr. tab. i$.f.$. Sloane 'Jamaica, I. /. 1 8. f. 2. 

 Plane, conch* tab. 10, fig. c. b. tab. 13 — 1 7. 

 Bcnan. Muf Kirch, tab. 289. fig, 1 5, 

 Ginann* op. poflh. 1. p. 1. tab. l-fig> 2. 

 Seba Muf 3. tab. \o%.fig*%. tab. 116. fig. 6, 7. 

 Inhabits rooft European leas, and is the common Coral of the 

 (hops; in many places it grows in fuch abundance that it is 

 burnt for manure : its colour is either red, yellowifh, greenifh 



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