M I L L E P O R A. 



larger ; fometimes of a milk-white, at other times of a 

 grey color. 



6. Millepora foliaeea. Foliaceous Millepore. 



Millepora lamellofa Millepore with winding la- 



flexuofa utrinque for of a. minas, or plates full of cells on 



both fides. 



Stony foliaceous Coralline. Ellis Corallin. p. 71. tab. 3O0. 

 fig. a. A. B. C. 



Millepora fafcialis. Linn. Syft. Nat. Ed. 12. p. 1283,,. 



This Millepore is very common on the fea-coaft of the 

 Britifh iflands, where it is found in maffes from three 

 inches to a foot long. We frequently obferve it incrufting 

 ftones and fheils, and like fome of the Fluftras, or Sea- 

 Matts, it firft forms a fingle layer of cells, and rifes up 

 with a double layer afterwards into twifted leaf-like ftony 

 maffes, with cells on both fides, difpofed in a quincunx 

 order. 



7. Millepora taenfalis. Tape Millepore. 



Millepora plana an- This Millepore is flat, nar- 



gufl a ramof a utrinque po- row, and fubdivided into 

 rofa^ ramis flexuofis coa- branches ; it has cells on both 

 litis. fides ; the branches bend ir- 



regularly, and often unite to- 

 gether. 



Porus Cervinus-.. Ellis Corallin. pag. 72* tab. 30, 

 fig. b. 



Millepora fafcialis. Linm Syft. Nat.. Ed. 12. p.. 1283,, 



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