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hereof are very broad, and divided only at the top. Not 
only porous within, but alfo pricked full of extream fmall 
holes on the outfide. 
The STOOPING POUNCED CORAL, C. puntt.po- 
cumbens. Porus Ramofus Bauhino. In this, fome of the 
Branches rife up obliquely, and diftincl:. Others of them, 
trail or ftoop, and are in feveral places inofculated. 
The RUSSET POUNCED CORAL. This is alfo 
branched 5 and the Root hereof, as that of a Sea-Shrub, 
fpread upon an Oyfterjhell. 
The WARTED CORAL. This likewife is a fort of 
pounced and branched Coral 5 and white. The Branches 
being alfo as it were warted or knobed. (a) ^ ob^T" 
ANOTHER of the fame 3 MORE branched. **, ' 
The White STARRY CORAL. From the Perfori before 
nam' d. Defcribed and figured by Imperatus. So called, be- 
caufe it is perforated with round and radiated Holes re- 
fembling little Stars. 
The Brown STARRY CORAL. Within,a little whitifk 
Not fo porous, as the precedent 5 and with nothing near 
fo many Stars. The Branches flat, like the Horns of an 
and fpread abroad. 
The OCULAR CORAL. C. alb. oculatum Officinarum. 
Very well defcrib'd and figur d by Ferranti Imper. (b) and (*) Lib - 2 7- 
7. Bauhinus. (c) This fort is fiftular, and hath large round %fub. 
holes in the fides of the Branches, fometimes near * of an Ca 
inch over 3 fomewhat like a Birds Eye. 
A Piece of the fame fort, with its expanded Root 
The fame growing on or round about fome of 
the Branches of a Sea-Shrub. As it is probable, That all the 
forts of fiftular Corals once did. 
The CROWNED OCULAR CORAL. Given by 
Sir J. Hoskins. In this, which is alfo white, to the eyes on 
the fides, are added little Heads crowned or radiated round 
about. 
A CLUSTER of Red Fiftular Coral 
The fpread FOLIATED CORAL. Clufius defcribes it 
by the Name of Planta Saxea Abrotonoides. Of whom 
Bauhinus borrows his figure. His Defcription not clear, 
'Tis white, and porous 5 efpecially the centre of every 
Branch, in imitation of a Pith. The feveral Branches 
encompafled 
