VERMIOLOGY. 



PLATE CXLIV. 



CORALLINA OPUNTIA 

 INDIAN FIG-CORALLINE 



OR 



ARTICULATED CORALLINE OF JAMAICA 



Vermes 

 zoophyta. 



generic character. 



Animal growing in the form of a plant ; stem fixed to extraneous 

 bodies, and composed of capillary tubes, whose extremities pass 

 through a calcareous crust, and open into pores on the surface : 

 branches often jointed and always subdivided into smaller branches, 

 which are either loose and unconnected, or united as if agglutinated 

 together. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 

 AND 

 SYNONYMS. 



Trichotomous, or having three jointed branches, the joints com- 

 pressed, kidney-shaped, and undulated at the edges. 



