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and which differ chiefly from them in the form of 
their clutters. 
My chief end in defcribing here this fpecies of 
5 Polypi, is to enable myfelf afterwards, to convey* 
by comparifon, a diftinft idea of a difference well 
deferving attention, that is to be obferved between 
the manner of multiplying thefe, and that of ano- 
ther fpecies of cluttering Polypi 7 which I happened 
to difcover the laft year. 
The reader will pleafe to recoiled what I have 
faid in the forecited p§per, concerning the general 
manner in which cluttering Polypi are multiplied, 
Thefe little animals are nearly of a bell-like form. 
Their anterior extremity, in which is their mouth, 
and which may be looked upon as their head, is 
that which is hollowed inwards, and refembles the 
open end of the bell. Their other extremity termi- 
nates in a point, and to this point is fixed a ftalk or 
pedicle. 
The Polypus y when it is ready to divide, firft 
draws in its lips into the body. It then by degrees 
puts on a round form, and prefently after the little 
fpherical body fo formed, divides itfelf into 
two other like fpherical bodies. Thefe laft in 
a few moments again infenfibly open, they then 
lofe their fpherical form, and put on that of a bell, 
or of a Polypus as perfect and as compleat, as that 
by the divifion of which it was formed. This is 
the manner in which feveral fpecies which I have 
obferved of cluttering ‘Polypi are multiplied : the 
whole operation is performed by that fort, of which 
I have fpoken in my former paper, in three quar- 
ters 
