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aiatter, forming the whole mafs into tubes, each 

 ending on the furface, in pores or cells, according 

 £0 their fpecific difference, where alone the animal 

 ^eems to dwell, and extending thefe habitations, 

 progreffively, in the manner of vegetables, leaving 

 the bafe at length to perilh. 



The animals of the Zoophyta^ containing tlie 

 Corallines, i^c. particularly the/;c^iones, approach 

 much nearer than the foregoing to vegetables, . 

 both in their texture and form in general, arifing 

 as if from a root, and forming a ftem and branches, 

 which are befet at the extremities and articulations 

 with the animals, or Polypes^ appearing by the 

 help of glaffes like fo many flowers. 



Since this trad was written, the fubjedb has re- 

 ceived much farther illuftration from the difcor 

 yeries of the late Mr. Ellis, 



95. Flora Capensis. C. H.Wannman. 1759. 



In the time of the Romans it was a trite proverb, 

 that Africa was the land of ^venders \ and it ftill re- 

 mains true, as in thefe days it affords, both in the 

 animal and vegetable kingdoms, fome of the moft 

 ftupendous and Angular productions of nature. 

 From the firft difcovery of the Cape of Good Hope^ 

 from whence Europe has chiefly been furniflied with 

 the plants of Africa^ their uncommon afped, fo 

 very different from thofe of Europe^ has attracted 

 the notice, not only of naturalifl:s, but of all man- 

 kind and as the mildnefs of that climate allowed 

 of their cultivation here, they foon became fa- 

 vourites in the Engliffo gardens. 



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