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larly : Thefe arms, in the microfcope, look like rows 
of the fmalleft beads of a necklace : T o the top of 
each of thefe is fix’d a cup, for the reception of the 
polypes, the brim of which is curioufly indented. 
Thefe we faw alive, and extending themfelves about 
in various dire&ions. 
Fig. n° 3. reprefents part of another coralline of its 
natural fize, juft as it appear’d expanded in a plate of 
fea-water. 
It is call’d, in Ray’s Synopfts , ed. 3. corallina ra - 
frioja cirris obfita ; and by Doody, in Ray’s Synopfts , 
ed. 2. fruticutus elegam gcniculatus cirris obfitus. 
Letter C expreffes a branch of this coralline magni- 
fied ; where you may oblerve, on each capillary fide— 
branch, rows of fmall polypes, each with eight ten- 
taculi, or claws, riling out of little fockets. The 
upper divifion, or tube, of thefe little branches, as at b , 
appears full of joints, one to each polype ; but we 
could eafily perceive, that all the polypes were con- 
ne&ed together, and communicate with the principal 
Item, or body, which is inclos’d in the middle tube. 
The under fmall tube of the capillary fide-branch at 
c, which runs parallel with the upper one b , and ad- 
heres to it, appear’d clear, hollow, and jointed. 
This coralline arifes from a tuft of fmall irregu- 
larly-matted tubes, like a fponge growing to an oyffer- 
fhell, as at g ; the fmaller branches e are inferted in 
circles round the larger branchy’, at equal diftances, 
like the plant call’d horfetail, or equifetiwi. As we 
were obferving thefe corallines, we perceiv’d, on one 
of them, a different- fhap’d polype, which thru fled 
itfelf out of a fmall funnel- fh ap’d pipe : This was in- 
ferted 
