VERMIOLOGY. 



PLATE CLIIL 



ISIS OCHRACEA 

 OCHRACEOUS ISIS 



OR 



JOINTED INDIAN CORAL 



ZOOPHYTA. 

 GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Animal growing in the form of a plant : stem stony, jointed, 

 the joints longitudinally striated, united by lapideous, spongy, or 

 horny junctures^ and covered by a soft porous cellular flesh or bark : 

 mouths beset with oviparous polypes. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 

 AND 

 SYNONYMS. 



Stem coralline : joints decorticated : junctures knotty. 



ISIS OCHRACEA : stirpe corallina : articulis decorticatis, geniculis 

 nodosis, Gmel Linn. Syst. Nat. 3793. n. 3. 



