WORMS, ZOOPHYTA. 15. Fiustra. 209 



About 2 or 3 inches high, yellowish, growing something in 

 the^hape of a Cock's comb. 



674. Sp, palmata. Palmate, with finger-like divisions 

 found the surface, wooly : pores a little prominent, 

 irregularly disposed. 



Soland. and Ellis Zooph p. 189. n. 10. tab. 58./. 6. 



Reddifh inclining to yellow, soft and woolly, with the divifioas 

 a little subdivided at the top. 



675. Spi bofryoides. . V,ery tender, branched, consisting 

 of clusters of oval tubercles open at the top. 



Soland. and Ellis Zooph. p. 190. n... 12. t, 58./. i?4. 



Bright shining white, in irregular mafses, like bunches of 

 grapes ; the surface when highly magnified, appearing as if covered 

 with mafses of 3-rayed spinous stars. 



676. Sp. lacustris. Uniform, creeping, brittle, with erect 

 cylindrical obtuse branches. 



Spongiaramosa fluviatilis. Hay Hist. 81. 



At the bottom of lakes, covered with scattered pores, in which 

 are. sometimes found, during the Autumn, fmall shining bluish 

 globules, about the size of the seeds of thyme, which glitter in the 

 flame of a candle. Thefe are probably extraneous bodies. 



75. FLUSTRA. Hornwratk. Sea Mat. 



677. FL foliacea. Foliaceous, branched, with rounded 

 wedge-shaped divisions. 



£llis Coral/, p. 70. t. 29. Jig* a. A-E. 



Adhering to shells, about 6 inches high, pale yellowish, porous 

 on both furfaces, with rounded 4-toothed cells. 



618. Fl. truncata. Foliaceous, branched., with linear 

 truncate subdivisions. 



Ellis Coxall. p. 69. tab. 28. Jig. a. A. B. 



About 5 inches long, pale yellowish-brown, with slender 

 branches, porous both sides, with oblong-fquare cells. 



679. Fl. pilosa. Foliaceous, variously branching, with, 

 a setaceous tooth on the lower part of each pore. 



Ellis Corallines p. 73. tab. ■ 31. 



Found incrusting various Fuci and Sertulariae, whitish, porous 

 both sides, with round cells. 



680. Fl. chartacea. Papyraceous, branched, with cells 

 on both sides 5 the tops of the branches truncate 

 like the edge of an axe. 



Solander and Ellis Zoophytes p.i 3, n . 4. , 



Thin, semitranfparent, like fine paper, very light straw-colour ; 

 the tops of the branches fometimes digitated, fometimes irregu- 

 larly divided: cells oblong-fquare, swellirrg out a little in the 

 middle each side,defended by, a helmet4ike figure. 



681. Fl. carbasea. Foliaceous, subdivided, with the 

 cells in single layers. 



Soland, and Ellis Zooph. p. 14. n. 5. tab. 3./. 6. 7. 



Thin like a piece of. lawn, yellowish-brown: cells large, ovate 

 above truncate beneath, the walls furrounding them appearing to 

 be formed of a slender tube. 



682. Fl., dentata. Foliaceous, parasitical, with shining 

 oval cells in single layers, each with an inclined 

 toothed mouth. 



Ellis Corallines f, 73, tab, *$. /, P. D 1, E, 



