ZOOPHYTES. 



PLATE CXXXVIII. 



MILLEPORA ALCICORNIS 

 ELK'S-HORN CORAL 



ZOOPHYTA. 

 GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Animal polype : coral mostly branched, pores turbinate and 

 round. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 

 AND 

 SYNONYMS. 



Branches compressed, straight, with scattered obsolete pores. 



MiLLEPORA AlcicorniS : compressa recta, poris sparsis obsoletis. 



Gmel Linn. SysU Nat. t. 1. p. 6. 378j2. sp, 1. 



This remarkable kind of Millepore, or White Coral, is found 

 in the Indian and South American seas in almost infinite abundance, 



