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S E R T U L A R I A. 



3. Tubularia ramofa. Branched Pipe Coralline. 



Tubularia tubulis ramo- This Pipe Coralline is 



fis^ axillis ramulorum con- branched, and the infertions 

 tortis. of the branches are twifted. 



Small ramified tubular Coralline. Ellis Corallin. pag. 31. 

 tab. 16. fig. a. tab. 17. fig. a. A. 



Tubularia ramofa. Linn. Syft. Nat. Ed. 12. p. 1302. 



I have often met with fpecimens of this Coralline that 

 have been regularly branched in a doubly pinnated form ; 

 and when I was at Emfworth, on the borders of Suffex, I 

 found a fpecimen of this Tubularia, with its ovaries 

 placed in a circle round the lower part of its heads. 



VI. SERTULARIA. VESICULAR CORALLINE. 



Animal polycephalum^ This is a many-headed ani- 



crefcens habitu plant ce^ ba- mal, growing in the fhape of 

 fique ajfixum. a plant, and fixt by its bafe. 



Stirps tubulofa^ cornea^ Its tubulous horny ftem is 



denticulis calyciformibusob- full of cup-fhaped denticles, 

 Jita^ medullce animalis con- through which proceed little 

 tinua capitula poljpiformia heads in the form of polypes, 

 emittentibus. from the gelatinous medul- 



lary part, which is continued 

 through the infide. 

 Ovaria: veficulce fingu- The ovaries are little blad- 



lares, polypos majores, ova ders, either containing a larger 

 vel prolem vivam conti- kind of polype-head, which 

 nentes. fends forth clutters of eggs, or 



(in other fpecies) the young 

 ones already formed and alive. 



In 



