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CLASSIFICATIONS OF ZOOPHYTES. 
is the same as Eschara of his preceding edition ; the Furia, 
which is an apocryphal animal ; and the Chaos , which is an in- 
fusory animalcule. Were we to analyze the genera we should 
find, in almost every one of them, species which properly belong 
to a different class of animals, or whose characters are at vari- 
ance with those assigned to the genus : but many of these mis- 
placements were the almost necessary consequences of the then 
state of knowledge relative to the beings in question. 
Solander, in arranging the materials of Ellis, followed the 
system of Pallas, but he introduced and placed the Actiniae at 
the head of the order ; he entirely rejected all the intestinal 
worms and infusory animalcules; and he amended the defini- 
tions of the genera by carefully avoiding all theoretical phra- 
seology. He used the term “ Zoophyta” exactly in the same 
sense, and with the same latitude, that it is used in the present 
work.* 
The method of Muller cannot be considered as any improve- 
ment on those of his predecessors, but there is an attempt after 
novelty in it. He places the Actinia and the Hydra among the 
Mollusca, an order full of heterogeneous things, embracing the 
cuttle-fish, snails and star-fish ; and in the same order we find 
the beautiful Lucernaria, one of the discoveries of this indus- 
trious and excellent naturalist. The proper zoophytes he de- 
nominates Cellularia, which are defined to be compound ani- 
mals, enclosed in cells, and propagating by means of buds. 
The genera are classed and defined as follows : 
* Calcarea, 
Articulata, tenera, 
Articulata, lapidea, 
Tubulosa, aggregata vel solitaria, 
Foraminulosa, 
Lamelloso-stellafa, 
Pertusa poris, 
** Subcornea . 
Tubulosa, tentaculis simplicibus, . Fistulajria. 
Tubulosa, tentaculis cristatis, . Tubularia. 
* The Natural History of many curious and uncommon Zoophytes, by the 
late John Ellis, systematically arranged and described by the late Daniel Soland- 
er. Lond. 1786. 4to. 
Cor ALL I NA. 
Isis. 
Tubipora. 
Cellepora. 
Madrepora 
Millepora. 
