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in vain ; I mufl own it has often happened to me 
in many fpecies, and yet I have not the leaft doubt 
of their being true Sertularias from the fnnilarity 
there is in their habit and form to others of the 
fame genus; and of this fadt I am fure Dodtor 
Pallas is fully convinced. 
Another argument made ufe of by Dodtor Pallas, 
to overthrow the animal exiftence of Corallines, is 
taken from Mr. Meefe’s aflertion, that he had found on 
Bergummer Heath in Friefland, a fubftance of the 
fame nature with the Corallines. Meefe, in his Flora 
Frifica, p. 75. calls it a Lichen ; but Dodtor Pallas 
has ventured in his Elench. p. 427. to rank it among 
the Corallines, under the name of Corallina ter- 
reftris In this Dodtor Pallas is in the right, as I 
have had an opportunity of examining a fmall fpe-. 
cimen, that my worthy and learned friend Dodtor 
SchlofTer of Amfterdam was fo kind to procure me : 
but how fuch a nice and accurate philofopher as 
Dodtor Pallas could let it efcape him to conlider the 
nature and quality of this fubjedt, and how much it 
differs from any thing elfe growing on the land, is a 
thing that furprifes me* It only being mentioned by- 
Mr. Meefe, as found on Bergummer Heath, ought 
not to have fatisfied him fo far, as to declare a body 
with a calcareous cruft to be a land production, when 
no fuch thing in the whole vegetable kingdom has 
ever been found ; it has always been thought quite 
the contrary, that a ftony or hard fubftance of that na- 
ture, could not be produced, but from an animal, 
and chiefly thofe that live under water 
■* See the figure of it in Tab. XVII. fig. 28. 
f ’Tis worthy of our notice how eafi’y this ingenious Natu- 
ral Hiftorian reconciles it to himfelf, that this inhabitant of tlve 
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