ANTIPATHES. 



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has given us a figure of one of thefe Antipathes, tab. 40. 

 fig. 179. No. 1. 2. 3. where there feems to be on the 

 fmalleft branches regular rows of polype-like mouths, 

 with two arms to each, fitting on little foot-ftalks, as at 

 A. A. No. 3. Thefe the Count takes to be of the fame 

 fubftance and ufe as the flowers in the Coral : but we 

 mu ft wait for further information, before we can con- 

 clude any thing from his obfervations, as his figures are 

 but rude. 



Some people imagine the Antipathes grows like a vege- 

 table ; but they have not obferved, that when we break 

 their ftems obliquely acrofs, we find the fpines regularly 

 difpofed in the infide layers as well as the outfide, as I 

 haveexpreffed it in fig. 6. tab. 19; whereas, in trees and 

 ilirubs that are covered with fpines, when we cut or break 

 them obliquely acrofs, we have not yet been able to dis- 

 cover the fpines in the internal annual circles of the 

 wood. 



Another material argument has not been yet noticed, 

 which is, that the medulla or pith-like fubftance of the 

 larger branches has no communication with the medulla 

 of the lefler branches, being always feparated by a fep- 

 , turn, or bony partition of the fame fubftance with the 

 reft of the ftem. It is quite othervvife in trees and 

 Shrubs ; fo that though they have an outward vegetable 

 form, their anatomy as well as chemical principles, is 

 quite different. 



Tab. 19. 



i. Antipathes Spiralis. Spiral Antipathes. f^.i-6 



Antinzthzs fmplkiffima Antipathes, or Black Co- 



fpiralis fcabra. ral, with a fingle twifted rough 



ftem. . 



Tab. 19. Fig. i — -6. 



O 2 Gorgonia 



