34 Jtf I L L E P O R A. 



This Millepore grows in very irregular mafles, but al- 

 ways preferves the fame habit of growing ; that is, the 

 branches are flat, narrow, and regularly fubdivided : 

 they coalefce, twift, and branch out again, leaving cer- 

 tain hollow fpaces between them ; their cells are much 

 fmaller, though of the fame fliape with the cells in the 

 foliaceous Millepore. This Coral was brought from the 

 Mediterranean Sea, and grows in large mafles of fix inches 

 diameter. 



There is a kind, fomething like this, found on the 

 coaft of Cornwall ; but the branches are not fo flat, and 

 the cells have more elevated openings, liker to the fol- 

 lowing fpecies. See Borlafe Hift. Cornwall, tab. 24. 

 • %• 7- 



8. Millepora cervicornis. Stags-Horn Millepore. 



Millepora fubcomprejfa This Millepore is a little 



dkhotoma utrinque celli- comprefled, and dichotomous; 



fera^ of cults tub ulofis pro- it has cells on both fides, with 



minulis. tubular openings that project a 



little. 



Marfigli Hift. de la Mer, tab. 32. fig. 152. 



This Millepore exactly agrees with Marfigli's defcrip- 

 tion and magnified figure, and likewife in the appearance 

 of its furface ; for it looks as if it was covered with var- 

 ni£h, by the time it is become from red to a yellowifii 

 brown. Its branches are very like a flag's horn, and it 

 is probably what Imperatus calls Porus Cervinus, and not 

 the M. taenialis, which I had formerly taken it for ; it is 

 very brittle, and much narrower than the Tape Millepore, 

 but not fo flat. I have obferved fome of the pores di- 

 vided at the bafe, but they are not generally fo, which 



makes 



