A N T I P A T H E S. 



thefe are difpofed in rows on the angles of the branches, 

 and feem to bend one over the other. 



IX.ANTIPATHES. A N T I P A ™f^™^ cdkd 



Animal crefcens plants Is an animal growing in the 



facie. fliape of a plant. 



Stirps intus cornea^ fpi- The Item is horny in the 



nulls exiguis obfeta, baft iniide, befet with very fmall 

 explanata^ extus came ge- fpines, and fpread out at the 

 latino/a, verrucis polypife- bafe. The outfide .is covered 

 ris obducta. with a gelatinous flefh, full of 



warts, from whence the po- 

 lypes extend themfelves. 



Ovaria/^n^, nifiovu- The ovaries are uncertain, 



la ex polypis, ficut in Gor- unlefs the little eggs proceed 

 gQ7iiis, Alcyoniis, &>c. from the polypes, as in the 



Gorgonias, Alcyoniums, &c. 



It appears from the old botanical writers, that the feve- 

 ral forts of Black Corals were formerly called by the name 

 or Antipathies ; but as the characters of thofe marine bo- 

 dies were not fo exactly looked into then, as they are now 

 in this prefent inquifitive age, fome of the Gorgonias, 

 whofe horny internal parts are black, were probably in- 

 cluded amongft them. 



That they were not only ufed as fceptres for princes, 

 but likewife for divining rods, and other fuch purpofes, 

 is clear from Salmafius's remarks to Solinus, wherein he 

 lays, that Antipathes denotes fomething proper to refill 

 incantations, and that they were ufed for that purpofe by 



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