Part Iff. Of Corals. 
CHAR III. 
Of CORALS, and other //% MARINE ProduBiom* 
THefe having alfo a refemblance unto Plants, and a near 
analogy unto thofe Stones, laft defcribed in the pre- 
cedent Chapter 5 they may therefore not unaptly be here 
fubjoyn'd. 
A Piece of CORAL, fmooth, white, and folid; with its 
Bafe or Root fpread abroad upon a Chalky Bed. 
A SPRIG of folid Red Coral. 
A knoted TRUNK of the fame * inches and ? in com pals, 
A Piece of folid CORAL both RED and WHITE, 
growing together. 
The ROOT of a folid Red CORAL, fpread upon the 
TRUNK of a White CORAL: in the fame manner, as 
the Membranous Roots of Sea-Shrubs are fpread upon 
Stones or other fteady Bodies. As if it had been indeed 
originally one of thofe Shrubs 5 particularly, of the Lignous 
kind, which hath no Pith, like the Horny $ but, as this 
Coral, is altogether folid. 
The SHRUB-CORAL. CoraUium fruticofum. So I call 
it, for its more efpecial fimilitude to a little Shrub. 'Tis of 
a brownifti colour, upright , and very much branched. 
Curioufly adorned round about with Striae running by the 
lengthjlooking like the fuperficial Fibers in the (talks of lome 
Plants. And within, radiated, as the fame when cut tranf- 
verjly. In fome of the greater Branches, the Rays being 
pointed or pricked, as by the laxer diftribution of the Fibers, 
they are in fome Plants. And many of them coming fliort of 
the Centre, fo as alfo to form a kind of Pith. 
The KNEED CORAL. CoraUium geniculatum. Pfeu- 
docor allium fungofum Ambrofini. {a) Madrepora ramofa Impe- ( a ) Aldiov* 
rati, (b) By which Name Bauhinus alfo defcribes it well. M^Metall. 
Tis ftriated without, and radiated within, almoft as in the cap. 4. 27 ° 
precedent. And is alfo ringed or knoted without, after 
the manner of Canes, or rather the upright Equifetum, 
and near of the fame thicknefs. Imperatus hath another 
kind a kin to this, yet diftincT: 3 not only knoted, but joynted, 
and by him therefore called CORALO Articulator in which 
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