ANIMAL PLANT. 
aquatic inserts. They are, indeed, sometimes 
found adhering to shells; with which they 
seem so much to he incorporated, that natura- 
lists of no little fame have been known to 
describe the Polypes as parts of the shell to 
which they grew. 
We conceive, that Edwards had the same 
notion as ourselves, respecting these Polypes, 
or Animal Plants : for, on dividing the head 
of a Polype, which v/as found adhering to the 
Balanus of the Whale, he discovered what he 
considered as most properly the Polype: 
which," says he, " seems not to adhere 
to the inside of it's case ; on one side of 
which there is an opening, througli vv'hich the 
Polype puts forth it's prongs, or feelers." 
I It is true, indeed, that the last mentioned 
Polype was of a considerable different form 
From that which is delineated in the annexed 
print: but we are still of opinion, that it was 
)nly a variety of, perhaps, the same species ; 
md that the observations, in general, are ap- 
)licable to all the different species, or varieties, 
)f Polypes, or Animal Plants. 
We 
