is drawn up in numbers adhering to the baits of fifh- 

 crmen's lines. The animal confifts of a fomewhat 

 flattened Hem or body, which is furniflied with an 

 internal bone, and dilates into an expanded part con- 

 fining of a great many pinns or lateral branches, 

 which are divided on their inner edges into a number 

 of tubular procefTes, through each of which is protuded 

 a part of the animal, refembling the head of a hydra or 

 polype : the whole animal therefore may be confidered 

 as a very compound or ramified hydra or polype, the 

 body of which is contained in the naked part or ftem, 

 and from thence ramifies into a valt number of proceffes, 

 each furnifhed with its particular head. 



This curious animal emits a very ftrong phofphoric 

 lightj and it is even fo luminous that it is no uncom- 

 mon circumftance for the nlhermen to fee the fifh 

 which happen to be fwimming near it, merely by the 

 light of the Pennatula. Its colour is a bright red or 

 crimfon, and the general lize that of the figure. 



a. One of the pinnas magnified, 



