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rine plants *. But, as another part of this letter is 
intended for an inquiry into this new difeovery of 
Dr. Barter’s, that Corallines are Confervas; a thing 
never known even to the great Mr. Ray, Dr. Dil- 
lenius, or any other botanirt, I fhall now proceed , 
to his ingenious friend Dr.. Pallas of Berlin, who 
has lately redded in Holland, and who has taken 
great pains in collecting every thing that has been 
wrote on the fubjedt of Zoophytes, from whence 
he has compiled a book called Elenchus Zoophy- 
torum, where he has ranged the feveral genera and 
fpecies of this ciafs of beirtgs in a lyrteinatical 
order. 
When he comes to the. genus of Cor&llina, he 
fays (vide Pallas Elenchus, p. 418.) -(-, “ They are to 
frC be left to the botanirts, as they belong to the vegeta- 
“ ble kingdom ; but makes this apology for inferring 
“ them, leaft his book fhould be thought imperfedt, 
“ as Linnaeus and Ellis have ranked them as 
“ Zoophytes in their works.” 
* Oorallinas, non Zoophyta, quamvis Linnaeus iifdem adnu- 
meret, led veras e confervarum genere plantaseile, luculentiffime 
perfpexi. Nunquam in earum apicibus polypi inveniuntur: 
iemen contra cellulis inclufum eodem quo aliie plantae marinse 
modo produnt. Phil. Tranf. Vol. LII. p. 3. 
f Corallinas ad vegetabilia referendas elfe. Midi vero totum 
hocce genus botanicis relinquendum videtur. Nec enim ftrublu- 
ra, nec chymicis principiis ad Z'oophytorum ullum genus acce- 
dunt, et pleraeque fpecies etiam habitum prorfus peculiarem Iva- 
hent, aliquae ad fucos potius accedentes, plurimae confervis 
eomparahiles, quamvis lapidefcenti fubllantia ab iifdem et om- 
nibus vegetabilibus diftinbtiflirnae. Pallas Elenchus Zoophyt,. 
p. 418... 
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