

WORMS. ZOOPHYTA. 94. Antipa{hes. 643 



94. ANTIPATHES. Animal growing in the 

 form of a plant: jlem expanded at the 

 bale, internally horny befct with fmall 

 fpines, externally covered with a gela- 

 tinous ilefti befet with numerous polype- 

 bearing tubercles. 



Spiralis. With a very fimple fpiral rough (lem. 



Solander & Ellis Coral/, p. 99. n. I . tab. 19, fg 1 — -6< 



Rumpf. Amb. 6. p. 202. tab. 78. C. 



Valentyn fad. 3. tab. 52, fig. B B. 



Eph. Aft. Nat. Cur, 2. A. 3. p. 78. tab. 4 /. 4. 



Inhabits the Indian , Mediterranean and North Seas : of a hard 

 horny black fubitance, exceedingly brittle, very long and 

 varioufly twilled, and. about the iizc of a writing pt 11. 



Ulex, Very much branched, with fcattered fpreading very rough 



fubulate branches. 

 Solander & Ellis Cor all. p. 100. n. 2. tab. 19. tig. 7, 8, 

 Inhabits the Indian Ocean; deep black, with irregularly difp: fed 

 and varioufly direcled ovate cavities diiperfed about the 

 branches, oi a browniih-yellow colour, and fuppoied to be 

 the ovaries. 



Subpinnata Branched, pinnate, rough, with fetaceous alternate fub- 

 divifions and a few others proceeding tranfverfely 

 from. them. 



Solander and Ellis Cor all. p t 101. n. 3. t tab. 19*/*. 9> 10. 



Inhabits the Mediterranean ; cinereous, with amber fpines. 



Myriophylla With numerous incurved pinnate branches, the fubdivifions 

 with other lefTer fpinous pinnules on the upper ude. 

 Solander and Ellis Cor all. p. 102. ;/. 4. tab. 19./. II, 12. 

 Sha-iv Natur. Mifcell. tab, 352. 

 Petw. Gaz. tab % 35. jig. 12. 

 Breyn prodr. 2. p. 35. ic. p. 33. tab. 29. 



Inhabits the Indian Ocean, and has the appearance of a fine (had) 

 fhrub : very rough and yeUowilh-brown. 



Akpecu- With fpinous fetaceous clofely panicled branches. 

 r aides* Solander and Ellis Cor all, p» 1 02. n. 5. 



Inhabits South Carolina, about 2 ieethigh, and riles. from abroad 

 fpread bale, dividing into leveral large branches flat on one ride 

 with a groove along the middle ; it then iubdivides into fmatfer 

 branches, forming clcfe panicles not unlike the fox-tail grals: 

 the outfide gieyiih, the infide black and very 'brittle. 



4M2 Cupnffus. 



