CINNAMON MADREPORE. 



Generic Character, 

 Animal allied to a Mpdufa. 



Coral marked with lamellar llar-fhaped impreffions 

 or cavities. 



Specific Character, &c, 



GREAT FERRUGINOUS BRANCHED MA- 

 DREPORE, with ftriated cylindric fubpin- 

 nated branches, terminating abruptly and 

 marked at the top by a ftar-ihaped cavity. 



CINNAMON MADREPORE. 



CINNAMON OR MAY-BLOSSOM CORAL. 



The genus Madrepora is by far the moft nume- 

 rous of all the Corals, and the fpecies differ moft 

 widely from each other in their^habit or general ap- 

 pearance. Some are of globular, or nearly globular 

 forms, with the furface thickly befet with round 

 radiated or ftar-fhaped impreffions : others are un- 

 dulated with ferpentine channels in the manner of a 

 labyrinth : fome are of a flat expanded form, and 



decorated 



