WOttMS* ZOOPH Yf A . TO. Cellepora. 205 



. tranches flat, narrow, irregularly fubdivided, coalescing, twisting, 

 and branching out again, leaving hollow fpaces between them. 



642. M.foliacea. Foliaceous, nexuous, uniting here and 

 thereat the extremities, and covered with hardly 

 visible pores on both sides. 



Ettis. Corallinesip. 7 1 . tab. 30. f. a. A/ B; C. 

 •' From 3 inches to a foot long: white, stony. 



^6,43*, M/cellulosa. 'Membranaceous, reticulate, funnel-form, 

 irregularly waved and plaited on the margin, with 

 numerous pores on one side. 



; Ellis. Corals p. 72. t. 25, /, d» D; F. \Mrf. Miscelt. t. 169. 



About 3. inches high, solid, brittle, white or yellowish-grey, 

 - refembling a piece of lace, consisting- of a flat undulating mem- 

 brane covered with large regular oval perforations on one side, 

 . quite smooth on the mnder-part between the openings ; sometimes 

 dispofed in a cup-fhaped form ; at other times running into loose 

 folds with a waved margin, like a ruffle. 



-^44. M. polymorphs » Crustaceous, solid, irregularly sha- 

 ped, but generally - branched and *ubereled, with 

 pores not visible to the naked eye. 



■ Ellis. CofumpSi&t. vj'i C. 'Bldckw.ilerb.trgss. 



Coral from 1 to 3 inches high, pure white, red, yellowish, green. 

 ■ ish or grey; sometimes shaped like the kernel of a walnut; 

 ''often in large coraprefsed maffes ; sometimes like a small bunch 

 of grapes; but most frequently in short irregular ramifications of 

 a chalky tubercled appearance and stony 'substance. It is the 

 common coral cf the shops. 



?645. M. Alga. Consisting of very thin and brittle semi- 

 circular plates, disposed horizontally. 



Solander and Ellis Zooph.p. 131. n. 3. tab. 23.fi 10.-12. 



Found on the Cornish coast, covering the "M. polymorphs, and 

 Is either red, purplish, yellow, or whitish ; extremely brittle and 

 ihin, with femicircular plates of various sizes constantly growing 

 horizontally, with their margins bending ovefj making them con= 

 vexon the upper*side and concave imderneath. 



M. tubulosa* Crustaceous, ; parasitic, pale purple, 

 with tubular pores disposed in transverse rows or 

 whorls: 



Ellis Coral/, p. 74: »'. 6. tab. 27. e^ E. 



Tubipora serpens. Gmel, 3754. Turt, iv. t, 614. 



'Found enveloping the stems of the Sertularia fafcfata • tubes erect 

 or -a, little declining, minute, difpofed in rows' over each other. 



647. M. Uliacea. l Creeping, prostrate, in obtuse linear 

 division*, whh tubulai pores on the upper-surface 

 disposed in transverse raws. 



Mars. Hist, Mar: pi 153; 6**234/. * 6 & »• 4^ £. 

 Somewhat refembles the last, but is white. 



'WCEfcLEPORA. Cellepore. 



648. C. spinosa. Parasitical, spongy, rough, consisting 

 of globular cells armed at the mouth with a spinous 

 tooth or two. 



£1lisCoral{inesp.7*.ta&.3o.f.&iI>i 



Found incrusting many of the Seftulariae and Fuci • cells 

 aunute globular, open *t top, guarded tquihI the mouth vith 

 ifincs. 



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