CRIMSON TUBIPORE, 



OR 



ORGAN CORAL. 



Generic Character. 



Animal allied (probably) to the genus Nereis. 

 Coral coniirling of erect cylindric parallel tubes. 



Specific Character, &c. 



TUBIPORE with fafciculated connected tubes, 

 and diftant tranfverfe membranaceous difle- 

 piments. 



Argenv. conch, t. 26. fig. A. 

 Ellis Zooph. p. 144. t. 27. 



This is one of thole Lithophytes which in ftru&ure 

 and general appearance feem plainly to indicate the 

 operation of animals, the whole mafs confirming of an 

 afihrtment of upright: parallel tubes, riling over each 

 other by ftages, fomewhat in the manner of the cells of 

 an honeycomb. The ftages or tranfverfe diiTepiments 

 by which the ftrata of tubes are connected, are of 

 unequal heights in different parrs of the mafs, and the 

 tubes of each ftratum leldom rife to the height of an 

 inch, and fometimes do not exceed half an inch, 

 and their diameter is from about a tenth to an eighth of 



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