642 WORMS. ZOOPHYTA. 93. Ifis. 



Dichotoma. Stem coralline, with fmooth joints and decorticated junc- 

 tures. 

 Petiv. Gat., tahy 3. fig. 10. Seba Muf. 3. /. 106./.4. % 

 Inhabits the Indian and JEthiopic Teas ; about half a foot high, 

 ibmewhat fiexuous: joints clear ileih-colour, with a cinnabar 

 flefli befec with convex papillae. 



Oihracea. Stem coralline, with decorticated joints and knotty junc* 



tures. 



Ellis Pkilof. Tranfaft. CO. p. 189. tab. 3. 



Soldnder and Ellis CoralUp 105. n. i» 



Rurnpf. Amb. 6. p. 234. tab. 85. /g. I. 



,S>/;« Muf. 3. /*£. 104. /%• l. 



Inhabits the Eaji Indies among the Spice IJlands : deep red> 

 fometimes white with the junctures brownifh-yellow : ft em 

 irregularly channeled as if eaten into : branches numerous, 

 dichotomous, fpread : joints conne&ed by deep yellow fpongy 

 knobs : f.efa pale yellow, full of itellate mouths : polypes with 

 8 claws. 



*Entrocha % Stem teilaceous round, with orbicular perforated joints 

 and vertieillate dichotomous branches. 

 Inhabits the Ocean, Stem about the thicknefs of a finger, with 

 crowded flat orbicular joints perforated in the centre, the 

 perforation pentangular with the difk fubftnate from the 

 centre S outer bark or flcjli unequal and furrounded with a 

 row of tubercles : branches thin, dichotomous, continued and I 

 not jointed. It mould feem therefore that thofe foffile bodies 

 called Entrocbi, are petrified fpecimens of this fpecies of Coral. 



•Meria. Stem teftaceous, jointed, pentagonal : branches verticillate 

 with a terminal dichotomous ftar. 

 Ellis encrin. 1764. 4. tab. i$<fig- H- 

 Pbilolopb Tranfacl, 52. tab. 14. 



Inhabits the Ocean, and is found foffile in all parts of Europe, 

 and known by the name of the Star-ftone. 



Coccheai Stem jointed, (lender, very red and fubftriate : joints united 

 by ihort yellowilh fpongy jun&ures: fieih on the out- 

 iide covered with imall icariet prominent cells, each 

 furniihed with a mouth. 



Soiander and Ellis Cor all p. 107. »♦ 3. tab. 12. f. 5. 



Inhabits the Indian Ocean, 2 or 3 inches high. 



Coral very minute with irregularly fpreading branches, and is 

 rarely found quite white. 



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