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dentated or crenated ; fo that if it is not a diftinct fpecies, 

 it is certainly a variety of the following. 

 This was found in the Mediterranean Sea. 



2. Madrepora Fungites. Tab. 28*. 



Madrepora /implex acaulh convex 'a, lamellis latere fub- ' 

 afperis indivijis : alternh minoribus fubincompletis. 



Tab. 28. Fig. 5. 6. 



Madrepora Fungites. Linn. Syit. Nat. Ed. 12. p. 1273. 

 Pall. Zooph. 281. n. 165. 



Lamella omnes margine valde denticulate, latere au- 

 tem vix exafperatae ; tubercula enim minutiffima funt. 

 Lamellae majores continue a centro ad peripheriam ; mi- 

 nores faepiffime centrum non adtingunt. Centrum ob- 

 longum. 



The animal of this curious Coral is defcribed by Rum- 

 phius, who faw it alive, as I have already mentioned in 

 my remarks on this genus. Dr. Linnaeus obferves, that 

 Forfkohl defcribes the animal of it to be of the Priapus 

 (or Aclinia) kind, and, in the fame manner as a fhell- 

 fifli, forms its (hell under itfelf. 



This Coral is met with in great abundance in the Red 

 Sea, and the Eaft-Indian Ocean ; it is frequently found 

 of five or fix inches diameter, and often of a milk-white 

 color. 



In many curious colledions, fuch as thofe of the Dut- 

 chefs Dowager of Portland and Dr. Fothergill, there are 

 many young ones adhering to the old ones, with large 

 rifmg lamellae, as in the old ones. 



3. Madrepora 



