176 A L C Y O N I U M. 



Sea-Fig. Ellis Corallin. pag. 82. tab. 17. fig. b. B. 

 Alcyonium Ficus. Linn. Syft. Nat. Ed. 12. p. 1295. 



The name of Sea- Fig was given to this fubftance by the 

 fifliermen on the coaft of Kent (where I found it) on ac- 

 count of the internal ftrudure, the cells and their con- 

 tents looking like the feeds in the fig, and not from the 

 external form, as I have already mentioned in my Effay 

 on Corallines. This name of Sea-Fig has occafioned a 

 miftake in fome late authors, who have confounded it 

 with the Sea-Fig of Count Marfigli, tab. 16. fig. 79. 

 which is a true Sponge. 



3. Alcyonium gelatino- 



fum Pudding Weed. 



Alcyonium luteum ge- This Alcyonium is of a 



latinofum polymorphum. yellowifh color, and of a ge- 



latinous fubftance. It is found 

 in various irregular forms. 



Sea ragged Staff. Ellis Corallin. pag. 87. tab. 32. 

 fig. d. D. 



Alcyonium gelatinofum. Linn. Syft. Nat. Ed. 1 2. p. 1 295. 

 Fucus gelati?iofus. Hudf. Flora Angl. pag. 471. 



This is found at particular feafons full of minute pa- 

 pillae, which fend forth polypes, and properly comes un- 

 der this clafs. In the month of Auguft, 1752, there was 

 fo great a quantity of it driven near Sheernefs, in the lile 

 of Sheppey, as to clog the fifhermen's nets, and interrupt 

 their fifhing. 



4. Alcyonium 



