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IX. A Defcription of a curious Sea-Plant ; 
Frutex marinus Flabelliformis cortice ver- 
rucofo obduSlus. Doodii. Rail Hift. Tom. III. 
p. 7 . et Synopf. Edit. 3. p. 32. Coralloides 
[ granulofa alba. J. B. Tom. III. pag. 809. 
Erica marina alba frutefcem. Muf. Pet. 
50. Keratophyton Flabelliforme , cortice 
verrucofo obduElum. Raii Syn. Edit. 3 p. 32. 
By Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. M. D. late Pre- 
fident of the Royal Society , and of the Col' 
lege o/’Phylicians, London, &c. 
of Natural Productions of all Kinds, the Founder and 
Patron of the Royal Society , and great Encourager 
of feveral Members thereof, had got, in his Clofec 
at Whitehall , this Coralline (as I call it) 5 which, I 
fuppofe, had been prefented to him by fome of his 
Sea-Officers, appointed to cruife in the Soundings, 
lying off the Weft of England , towards the Atlan- 
tic Ocean. I have had it from thence intire, and 
in Perfeftion, from fome of the late Commanders 
on that Station (of which I here give an intire Figure 
when young, Tab. II. Fig . 1 .), who, by their founding 
Lines, brought it up from the Rocks at the Bottom 
of the Sea 5 and which being a very curious Coralline, 
I wonder it has been fo little taken notice of. 
Read Feb. 6. 
J745-6. 
K 
ING Charles the Second, who was 
a very curious and great Obferver 
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