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In feme well preferved fpecimens of this fpecies of Co- 

 ralline, collected at the Bahama Iflands by the Rev. Mr. 

 Clarke, I have obferved fomething very like teftaceous lit- 

 tle bodies at the extremities of their radical tubes: from 

 thefe bodies the. tubes have crept along till they have been 

 properly fixt. The Coralline then begins to grow erect, 

 and the polypes appear in the cells ; after this the eggs or 

 young ones appear, one at the fide of each cell ; it is then 

 perfect. L have mentioned thefe three ftages of the Co- 

 ralline, becaufe I think them fomething analogous to the 

 different changes in mod infects. In the Zoophyte, the 

 various ftates are all connected together at length ;, but in 

 the infect, thefe different ftates are brought about by dif- 

 ferent changes of the exterior furface of the fame body. 



I muft, before I conclude thefe remarks, obferve, that 

 the advocates for vegetation in thefe bodies, call the 

 wrinkled adhering tubes at the bafe, roots: but they 

 fhould examine them ftrictly, and they would find them 

 meer cylinders, and that they do not grow fmaller to- 

 wards their extremities, which is evidently the cafe with 

 the roots of vegetables, . 



r* it ■• • i r Soft-feathered Celleferous Co- 



r> Ceiiana plumofa. JJ „. J 



r ratline* 



Cellaria cellulis unila- Celleferous Coralline with; 



teralibus altemis extro'r- alternate (harp-pointed cells, 

 jum acutis, ramis, dicho- looking one way, and end- 



tomis ereSiis fajligiatis. ing at top in dichotomous 



branches. 



Soft -feathered Coralline. Ellis ■ Corallin. pag. 33.. 

 tab. 18. 



Sertularia fafligiata, Linn , .Sy ft, Nat. Ed. 1 2 . p. 1 3 1 4. 



2, . Cellar! a-' 



