158 NATURAL HISTORY of NORWAY. 



Among the Greeks they were not improperly called a,M^ 

 i. e. ftone-trees, ftone in fubftance, and trees in growth and figure. 

 Among the branches of the feveral northern vegetables in my pof- 

 feffion, hang feveral foft filaments, about three inches in length, 

 and the bignefs of a ftraw; thefe I look upon to be other marine 

 plants different from the coral, tho' their colour, like that of the 

 coral, is of a pure white. I have alfo perceived a brown oil or fap 

 to diftil from the orifices of a coral capfula; which, r as far as it 

 reached, made a vifible alteration in the whitenefs of the coral. I 

 fhall now exhibit a concife view of my collection of northern 

 coral-plants, which were hailed up in the fiihing-nets, both here 

 and in Sundmoer. 

 ?f e fevl P rai° n * *• A piece half an ell in length, and a quarter and half in 

 rais. breadth, its moots open and expanded, with pretty large flowers, 



or ftones ; its colour perfectly white. 



2. A thick piece almoft round, with its twigs intermingled like 

 a thorn, the ftones fmall and black, all the other parts yel- 

 lowifh. 

 see pkte xiv. 3. This is a quarter and half long, and a quarter of an ell in 

 breadth, implicated almoft like the former, but flatter; entirely 

 white, the flowers much larger than the former, fome of them 

 even exceeding a milling; and likewife expanded like a flower 

 in full bloom, for which Angular beauty I caufed a draught of it 

 to be taken. 



4. A piece of confiderable thicknefs, the main fhoot much 

 ftronger than the former, with a large and globular node, like the 

 capfula of a flower before its bloom ; but the other twig has open 

 ftelkted flowers, with a cavity larger than the former. 



Fig. b. 5- A fmall elegant coral fhrub, with flat fhoots, being an ex- 



acl: reprefentation of the extremities of a ftag or rein-deer's antlers, 

 adhering to a ftone. 



Fig. c. 6. Another of the fame kind, likewife growing from a ftone, 



of a greyifh colour, as is the former. 



Fig. d. 7. This is very flender, being a plant juft beginning to open 



the ftone. 



Kg- e- 8. The like, but more expanded. 



Fig. f. 9. This is no bigger than the tip of the finger, but formed in 



a manner, the like of which I have never feen. It fomewhat re- 



fig, a 



femble 



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