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10. Pennatula Encrinus. Great clufter Sea-Polype. 



Pennatula Jlirpe qua- This Sea-Pen has a very 



drangulari attenuata Ion- long, fqu are, bony ftem, which 

 gijfima ojfea membrana cal- grows very fmall towards the 

 I of a veftita, polypis ovi- top, and is covered with a cal- 

 paris apice in umbeilam lous membrane : it fends forth 

 congeftis. from the top, in form of an 



umbell, a clufter of polypes, 

 from whence the eggs or fpawn 

 is produced. 



Clufter- Polype. Ellis Phil. Tranf. Vol. 48. pag. 305. 

 tab. 12. Corallin. pag. 96. tab. 37. 



Vorticella Eitcrinus. Linn. Syft. Nat. Ed. 12. pag. 13 17. 



The ingenious Dr. Bohadfch, of Prague, has very pro- 

 perly placed this curious animal among the Sea-Pens. 



The twifting of the bone in the ftem feems to be an 

 accident, and not the character of the animal. 



VIII. GORGONIA. THE GORGON 



Animal crefcens plant te Is an animal that grows with 



facie, the appearance of a plant. 



Os (five fulcrum) va- The bone, or inward fup- 



riat confeftentid in diverfis port, varies in different fpe- 



fpeciebus, et eft vel coria- cies in its coniiftence, and is 



ceum^fuberofum^ lignofum^ either like leather, cork, wood, 



corneum^ ojfeum, tefta- horn, bone, fhell, made of 



ceum, fibris vitreis con- glafTy fibres, or like ftone ; it 



iextumvellapideum\ ftri- is ftriated, grows fmaller at 



K 2. atum* 



