2(H ! WORMS. ZOOFllYTA. 68. 69. 



Montague Brit. Shells p. 555. *. 12. 



Shell about in inch and a half long, formed of 5 or 6 large 

 fragments of shells with their concave sides placed downward; 

 leaving a narrow opening at the ends of each. 



ORDER IV. ZOOPHYTA. 



68. MAI>REPORA. Madrepore. 



635. M . verritctirfa. Star single, scmiorbfcular, sessile, 

 with a convex disk full of tubular pores and radiate 

 round the border. 



Sotandand Ellis JZodph.fi. 137; n. 13. Ginan. Adr. 10. t. 4. /. 13. 



Size of a split pea, white or yellowish, with aggregate tubes on 

 the disk ' like the florets of a composite flower, and a flattened 

 striate border like the rays of thefe 'flowers. It appears an inter- 

 mediate fpccJes between the*Madrepore, Tubipore, and Millcpore. 



636. M. musicalis. Aggregate, cylindrical, distant, striate, 

 united by numerous transverse psrtitions. 



Borlase Cornwall t. 27./. 7. Ph iU trans. 53. f. 20./. 14. 



Sometimes cast on the Irish coast, and is often found petrified : 

 corals nearly straight, from an inch to 2 long, white, stellate and 

 flat at top. 



69. M1LLEPORA. Milltpore. 



637. M. cervicomis. Somewhat compressed, forked, with 

 cells on both side*? and rather prominent tubular 

 florets. 



Borlase Cornw. t. 24./". 7. Mars. Mar. t. 32./. 152. 153. 



Coral got' 6 inches high, reddish or yellowish-brown, whitish 

 within, appearing as if covered with a varnish, branched like the 

 horns ''-of a stag; fome of the pore's divided at the bafc. 



638. M. ISkenei. Flat, slightly branched, with cells on 

 both sides disposed in alternate rows : cells turbinate, 

 with a gaping mouth, and covered with a helmet; 

 the under-lip with a small tooth, 



Colander and Ellis Zooph. p. 135. n. 9. 



Found adhering to rocks near Aberdeen, of a bright shining white 

 colour, and appearing as if covered with a silver varnish. 



639. M. compressa. Compressed, branched, more or less 

 truncate: pores every where a little prominent and 

 rough. 



Sowerby's British Miscellany \. p. 83. tab. 41. 

 Coral about 2 inches high, reddish-grey, With distant branches. 



640. M. lichenoides. Caulescent, decumbent, with waved 

 bifariously forked branches above "with the pores a 

 little prominent, striate beneath. 



EUh<:ordll. p. 95. t. 35./. B. b. Nat. Misceli. t. 4x6. 



Coral 2 or 3 inches long, milk-white, very brittle, with obtufe 

 denticulate branches. 



'641. M.fascialU. Membranaceous, flat, narrow, branched, 

 flexuous, with pores on both sides. 



Ellis Coxall.p. 72. t. 30./. B.b. Borl. Cornw. t. 24./. 6. 

 Coral about 6 inches in diameter, growing in irregular masses : 



