ANIMAL PLANT. 
The Animal Plant, or Polype, as this cu- 
rious objedl is named by PZdwards, v/ho first 
figured and described it, is represented of the 
natural size. It has an oval head, of the size 
and shape, nearly, of a Spanish Olive ; with a 
long neck, or stem, by which it is fastened to 
a stone. Perhaps, in stri6:ne3s, it should be 
specifically denominated, the Priapus Polypus: 
by which appellation, it seems, Edwards re- 
ceived it-; who supposes it to have derived that 
name from the shape of it's head. 
The head of this vegetable animal, or ani- 
mal vegetable, has a kind of crucial opening, 
or mouth, near it's upper part; and another ; 
opening, or aperture, near the stem, supposed- ' 
to be the vent. The head is covered with a 
fine, smooth, soft skin, glossy like sattln, of a 
whitish colour, and which, while wet, has the 
colour of pearl. Outwardly, the head seems 
to be divided into parts, like an orange whea' 
peeled: on being opened, little regularity of 
parts was discovered, but yet they seemed to- 
be 
