PLATE CLXXVIII. 



A curious species of Coral, of a brilliant red or crimson colour, 

 and in its general formation not inaptly resembling the connected 

 perpendicular pipes of an organ, whence the name of the organ-pipe 

 coral. It occurs, affixed to rocks about low water mark, in the 

 American and Indian seas. Some writers regard it as an antidote, 

 applied in a pulverized state, to the bite of venomous creatures, and 

 it is employed, it is said with efficacy, by the Indians for this 

 purpose. 



This kind occurs on the shores of certain islands in the Pacific 

 Ocean, where our navigators met with it covered with a gelatinous 

 substance of a very slippery nature, and dangerous to walk upon. 



