VERMIOLOGY. 



PLATE CLXIV. 



ISIS HIUPPURIS 

 BLACK AND WHITE JOINTED 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 with soft porous cellular flesh or bark : 

 mouth beset with oviparous polypes. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 

 AND 

 SYNONYMS. 



White with striated joints and black junctures. 



ISIS HlPPURIS : stirpe corallina : articulis striatis, geniculis 

 a ttenuatis. Linn. Fn. Suec. 2220. — Gmel. Syst. 

 Nat I. p. 6.3792. 340. n. 1. 



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