PLATE CXLIV. 



Co RALLINA Opuntia : trichotoma articulata^ articulis compressis 

 undulatis remiformibus. EUis and Solanil. 

 p. 110. 



CoRALLiNA Opuntia. Linn, Syst. Nat. ed. 12. 1304. Gmeh 

 3836. 346. 1. 



Corallina opuntioides, ramulis densiorlbus, et folils magis siniiatis 

 atque corrugatis. Sloan Hist. Jamaica, 1. p, 57- 

 U 20. 



It is observed in the history of Zoophytes edited by Dr. Solander, 

 from the papers of Mr. Ellis, that this kind of CoraHine is found on 

 the coast of Jamaica and the other West Indian islands, and that " it 

 had been lately found on the shore of Prince's Island, in the straits 

 of Sunda, by Dr. Badenach." From the precise manner in which this 

 locality and the name of its observer are mentioned, we are induced 

 to believe it might have been then regarded as a species less 

 abundantly disseminated than it is known to be at this time. Several 

 of the earlier writers had described it, but as a production of the 

 vegetable not of the animal race, and among others, Bauhin, Clusius 

 and CliflPord. At this more enhghtened period, its animal origin is 

 no longer considered doubtful ; it is now admitted with the other 

 Corallines and their analogous genera, as the production and habit- 

 ation of the marine polypes. The true colour of this Coralline in the 

 living state is whitish, tinged with cream colour, sometimes with a 

 roseate hue, and very frequently with green, probably a filmy incrus- 



