VERMIOLOGY. 



PLATE CXLL 



MADREPORA SIDEREA 

 SIDEREAL, OR STARRY MADREPORE 



Zoophytes. 



generic character. 



Coral Willi lamellate star-shaped cavities. Animal resembling 

 a medr.sa. Linn. 



* Aggregate, undivided, with distinct stars and porulous tuber- 

 culous prominent undulations. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 

 AND 

 SYNONYMS. 



With crowded, rounded, and subangular stars, the divisions 

 thick, and rather convex : alternate gills nearly united at the margin : 

 centres simple. 



Madrepora Siderea: stellis confertis rotundis subangulatisque : 

 parietibus crassis convexiusculis, lamellis alternis 

 margine subconnatis, centris simplicibus. Soland, 

 et FMs Coral, p. 168. n. 66. t. 49. 2. 

 GmcL Sysi. Nat. T. I. p. 6. 3765. 37. 



