MADREPORA. 



alive in fea- water, from the dangerous iituation they were 

 in themfelves. 



They are likewife found in great plenty in the Red 

 Sea, and among the Molucca iflands, where the natives 

 call them, in the Malay language, Batu-Swa7tgi y that is, 

 the Magicians Stone; for the inhabitants of thofe iflands 

 think they have a magical virtue in them, and, for that 

 reafon, hang them on trees, to keep thieves from the fruit ; 

 it being a prevailing opinion among them, that thofe who 

 attempt to fteal, where they are hung up, will be feized 

 with a breaking out full of red pimples. They are alfo 

 careful not to fit on them for fear of the (trangury. On 

 the contrary, the people of Java and Malacca give 

 both old and young the powder of this Red Coral againft 

 the ftrangury. The inhabitants of the Celebes put fome 

 of the powder on any wound that is made by a venomous 

 creature, and for this purpofe always carry a fmall piece 

 of it about them. 



*4.5 



XIV. MADREPORA. MADREPORE CORAL. 



Animal mo do fimplex, 

 mo do ramofo-prolifertim. 



Stirps lapidea [Coral- 

 Hum) fcEpe planted forma 

 crefcenS) cellulofa y apice 

 vel fuperficie terminata 

 cavitatihus lamellofo-Jiria- 

 tisy polypiferis. 



The Madrepore is an ani- 

 mal fometimes Angle, fome- 

 times fending forth its pro- 

 geny in the form of branches. 



The ftem or niafs is of a 

 ftony nature (Coral) often 

 growing in the form of a plant, 

 full of cells, which are either 

 on the top or on its furface, 

 and end in lamellated cavities, 

 to which their polype-like ani- 

 mals belong. 

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