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compounded of many of fuch animals, each upon its eel], 

 do vegetate as plants, becaufe they grow up together in 

 ramified forms. 



Peyfonel and Linnaeus are both of opinion, that the 

 animals of the Lithophyta, or Corals, conftruc~t their own 

 cells by depositing under them a coralline matter. See 

 Syft. Nat. pag. 1270. 



[1]. Madrepore Simplices. 



Cor allium fimplex. 

 Stella unica. 



J AB - 28 - 1. Madrepora Patella. 



Madrepora Jimplex acaulis^ lamellis latere muricatis fuh- 

 trichotomis : tertiis indivifts majoribus. 



Tab. 28. Fig. i — 4. 



Lamellce omnes margine denticulate, latere valde mu- 

 ricatae, duae trichotomy : lamellula intermedia indivifa 

 craffiufcula : tertia reliquis multo major, a centro ad 

 marginem continua, indivifa. Juniores plane, adultae 

 convexae. 



This little Coral is an inch and a half diameter, and a 

 quarter of an inch thick : when I firft faw it, I took it 

 to be the Madrepora Fungites in its younger fiate ; but 

 upon examining it ftricHy, and the manner of its grow- 

 ing, fuch as the regular fubdivifions of its lamellae at par- 

 ticular diftances in a trichotomous order, together with 

 their fides being remarkably granulated ; befides, the 

 plates, or lamellae, of the younger kinds of Madrepora 

 Fungites from the Eaft Indies are much more elevated, 

 lefs numerous, fmooth on their fides, and their edges 



dentated 



