652 WORMS. ZOOPHYTA. 96. Aleyonium. 



Ellis Cci'all. p, 61. tab. 26. A. ft/fa* tterigr. tab, 1 8*/. 8, 



iJ<y7 Muf.'tah 24. r O/r^r Muf. p. tog, t. 39./. 2. 



Bonan Muf Kirch. p. 220. >/. I 3 fg.p* 286. 



lorrub. Hid Hijpan. tab. 10. ^, 12. 



4&r/. Hi/l. Mar. p. 100 /oi. 19./^ 84, 



tfurgot Mtm. lnjlr, tab, 23 ^g D. 



AWr Z)^//f. /uA. A 12. /£ I. /. A 13./". 1,2. 



Inhabits moft leas, and i* often feveral feet high and expanded 

 into a 1 -rge furface : flexile, horny, black, the older bai k whitifh 

 or grey : pons it regularly placed, but generally in the form of 

 a quincunx : trunk and branches pinnate, and by me-.ns of the 

 imaller branches blending together forming an elegant kind of 

 net -work : poly pa with 8 claws. 



96. ALCYONIUM. Animal generally grow- 

 ing in the form of a plant: Jlem fixed, 

 iieihy, gelatinous, fpongy or coriaceous, 

 bfcfet with polype-bearing ftellate cells. 



Arlorr^n. Stem arborefcent, with obtufe branches and papillary pores. 

 \Sha~M Natur. Mtjieil.tab. 334. Muf TeJ}* 1 20. t. 10. 



Aft. Nidrof, 4./. 87. tab. \i.fig. x — 8. 



Pontcpp. Noriv. p 274,275. tab, 12 n, 4, c,. 



Kcelreut. no-v. Cornm. Pcirop. 7. p. 345, t. 1 .3, 14. 



Inhabits the Indian and North Seas, and grows to 6 or 7 feet in 

 heighth : fief.i thick, rofy, with tubercles unequally difpofed, 

 within more yellow, with a whitifh harder iuMtance refem- 

 bling the bony part o{ 4 Gorgonia : brani.hesye.ry rugged and 

 irregular. 



Exjs. Stem arborefcent, coriaceous/fcarlet and branched towards 



;. . the top, with papillary liars. 

 Marf. Hift. Mar p. 85 163 tab. II. «. 74, 75. /. 38, 39. 



Bohad. Mar* /• 114- ta ^ 9- fig- 6, 7* 



Plane Aft. Senens 1. p, zzz* tab* Q.f, 6-8„ 



Pet iv Pi ltal tab. I. f.g- 2,3. 



Qtnann . Adr. \.p 45. ta/>. 50. 



$ chaffer Blumenpol. 1 7.5 5 • tab 3 „ 

 . Inhabits the Mediterranean, affixed to rocks and fhellf, and grows 

 to half afoot high and as thick as a. finger:' imooih, white 

 within with a harder central f ubfcance : oviparous. 



*Digtiatum Without-flem, oblong, lobcd, of a coriaceous wrinkled fub- 

 itance covered wall minute papillae. Dead Man s Hand. 

 Ellis Lor.;L % p. 83. ttkb. 32. iff.aA. A. 2. 

 PhuojSivattf, 53, t, 20. /. 10—13. Barr % k. 1293, 1294, 



