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put in to refit there. At the fame time there was a va- 

 riety of this fpecies found that was perfectly white. 



XI. CORALLINA. CORALLINE 



Animal crefcens habitu Is an animal growing in the 

 plantce. form of a plant ; 



Stirps^fftf, e tubis ca- whofe Hem is fixt to other 

 pillaribus per cruftamcal- bodies, and is compofed of 

 car earn par of am fefe exfe- capillary tubes, whofe extre- 

 rentibus^ compejita. mities pafs through a calca- 



reous cruft, and open into 

 pores on the furface. 

 Rami fepe artkulatt^ The branches are often 



fetnper ramulof> vel di- jointed, and always fubdivided 

 varicati) liberi vel con- into fmaller branches ; which 

 glutinati et connexi. are either loofe and uncon- 



nected, or joined as if they 

 were glued together. 



This genus has been thought by fome late writers to 

 belong entirely to the vegetable kingdom, and to differ 

 but little from Fucus's and Conferva's : but as Dr. Lin- 

 naeus obferves, in a note on this genus in his Syftem of 

 Nature, p. 1304. " Corallinas ad regnum animale perti- 

 <c nere ex fubftantia earum calcarea conftat, cum omnem 

 " calcem animalium effe productum veriffimum fit.'* 

 Or, that all calcareous fubftances are moil truly of animal 

 production ; therefore that Corallines, confirming of that 

 fubftance, do belong to the animal kingdom. 



What or where the link is that unites the animal and 

 vegetable kingdoms of Nature, no one has yet been able 



to 



