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P E N N 



T U L A. 



knotted Sea-thread ; but differ remarkably in having their- 

 echinated ovaries arife from the adhering tubes. 



VI L PENNATULA. 



S E A-P E N 



Animal natans r libe- 

 rum, multiforme y ojficulo 

 fuffultum y 



Polypos tentacuUs ra- 



Is an animal that fwims 

 freely about in the fea, of 

 many fhapes, having a bone 

 in the infide to fupport it. 

 It fends forth from the up- 

 cliatis oviparis a parte fu- per part of its item, polype- 

 periori exferens* like mouths furrounded by 



claws ; through thefe it pro- 

 duces its eggs* 

 Balis nudm The lower part of the fteni 



is bare.. 



This genus of animals differs remarkably from all the 

 other Zoophytes by their fwimming freely about in the 

 fea, and many of them having a mufcular motion as they 

 fwim along. I know of none of them that fix themfelves 

 by their bafe,. notwithflanding what has been wrote. 

 They have no opening at the bottom, as was formerly 

 thought, nor any other paffage but through their polype, 

 mouths ; by thefe they take in their food, and through 

 thefe they produce their eggs r as in mod Zoophytes. 

 They have the remarkable property of fending forth a. 

 ftrong phofphoreal light in. the fea. 



When we compare them to the other Zoophytes, they 

 approach neareft to the Gorgonia, as having a bone in 

 the iniide like them,, which is covered with flelh, and 

 their upper parts full of polype-like mouths. 



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