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the neighbourhood of Rovigno and Orfera, where it 
is often filhed up. 
A Defcription of the Miriozoon, or Pfeudo- 
foralium album fungofum of Aldrovandus. 
As the (ize and (hape of this polvpary is fufficiently 
feen in Fig. A . I (hall defcribe only what the micro- 
fcope has enabled me to obferv’d therein ; and what 
Count Marfigli, tho’ peculiarly diligent, has either 
overlook’d, or examin’d with too little attention. 
And this I do the more willingly, as the mechanifm 
of this body to me appears very wonderful. 
Its fubftance is rather like that of bone than of 
marble, but brittle withal : and its brittlenefs pro- 
ceeds from the great number ©f cellules, with which 
it is hollowed. 
Thefe cellules are ranged all around in the branches, 
(Fig. C. 777,) and difpofed in the manner of a quin- 
cunx ; (Fig. B. 77, o,) and I don’t know to what bet- 
ter to compare the form of each cellule, than to one 
of thofe cinerary urns, which are frequently found in 
Italy (Fig. E. i). 
In each of thefe cellules lodges an oblong polypus, 
(Fig. G.) (lender at the tail, (Fig. G. t ,) thick at the 
.belly, (Fig. G. e,) and again (lender at the neck, 
(dFig. G. e,) to which is attached a little cover, (Fig. 
G. o> and F. o,) round, concavo-convex, and of a 
bony-fubftance. This cover is attached by its lower 
part (Fig. F. n t and H . e,) to the entry of the cel- 
lule (Fig. F. x). 
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