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WORMS. ZOOPHYTA. 100. Coraliina. 



Tourn.lnfl. I . p. 557. tab. 33S. A, Barr.ic. 1 276. A. 



Ruffel aq. Man tit fig. 3, Moris. Hift, PL 3./, 65 l. t.g, 



Seba Muf. 3. tab. 1 00. fig. 13 — 1£. 



Aft. Hafin t 10. ta£. c. fig 7, Lo£t7. /r. 2, 240. 



Solander & Ellis Corall. p. 1 1 8. /«£, 23. f % 1 4, 15. 



Common on almoft every more, growing in cluttered tufts 2— .£' 

 inches long, about the thicknefs of a large thread ; white, 

 greenifh, yellowifh, purple or reddifh, and frequently a mix-> 

 ture of all the colours. This is the fpecies fometimes uied in 

 powder as an abfoxbcnt and vermifuge. 



Pinndta. With pinnate branches without joints, and covered with a 

 mealy fubftance. 

 Inhabits Solander & Ellis Corall. p. 117., ?i~lj, 



*Ruisns. Dichotomous, filiform, with the joints of the flem round* 

 thofe fupporting the divifions clavate, fome of the 

 lower ones 2-horned. 



Ellis Coral/, p 50. tab. 24., n. 5. fig, e, E. 



Ca-vnlin, pol, mar. 3 p. 257. tab. 9. fig. 16. 



Inhabits the Bnt/Jh and Mediterranean fea$: 2 inches long, reef* 



m Cridata, Dichotomous, filiform, in crefted clutters, with roundifh 

 joints,- thofe fupporting the laft fubdivifions clavate. 



Elks Corall. p. 5 I . tab. 24. n. 7. fig. f. F. 



Sloant'Jamatcay 1. p. 58. n. 19. tab. 20 fig. 5. 



Plukn, pbytogr. tab. 168. f. 3. Barrel, ic. 1296. f. 2. 



Inhabits the European and American feas ; 1-2 inches long, and 

 difpofed in creit-like tufts: red, purple, white, green or yel* 

 lowifh. 



•Sperms- Dichotomous, filiform, with roundifh branches, thofe 

 pboros. fupporting the 2 laft fubdivifions clavate, terminal 



ones long, fetace©us. 

 Ellis Corall. p. 51. tab-,24.. n.'S. fig. g. G. 

 Moris. Hill. PL 3. p. 65 1. tab, 9. fig. 9. 



. 2, £//// Corall. tab, 24. n.g fig. h. H. 



Inhabits the Cormfn Ccajt : milk-white, about an inch long, and 

 more loofe and fpread than the lalt. 



•Cemicula- Dichotomous, with the joints of the flem and branches a* 

 ta. horned, thofe of the fubdivifions roundilh. 



Ellis Corall. p. 50. tab. 24. n, 6, f. d. D. 

 Inhabits the Cornijh Coaft. A variety grows in the Weft Indies 1 

 wiih all the joints horned. 



Fraviliffima* 



