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If the infid e of thefe precedes had been hollow, 
and the cutfide of a regular figure, I fhould not have 
hefitated to confider them to be the ovaries of the 
Coralline; but as they ar-e folid, and of the fame 
firuFture with the red: of Corallines, I fiiail rather 
call them defective branches. 
DoCtor Pallas’s laft argument to prove that Coral- 
lines are vegetables is, that the nodules, or tubercles, 
which he has obferved in Corallines, contain little 
feeds fubanalogous, or fomewhat refembling thole 
we find in the fructification of the Fucus’s and Con- 
fervas. 
If this method- of reafoning fhould hold good, 
what will become of the Cellularias, Sertul arias, and 
Millepora calcarea & agaricifcrmis, with matny other 
zoophytes, that have fuch roundifh ovaries ; they 
muft be recalled to the vegetable kingdom, notwith- 
ffanding all doubt about their being living animals 
has long been laid a fide. 
I come now to his ingenious friend DoCtor Bafter, 
who carries this matter ftill farther, and fays poll- 
tiveiy , in Phil. Tranf. ,Vol. LII. p. 11 1. that the 
Corallines are true Confervas ; and in his Opufcula 
Subfeciva, Vol. I. Tab. I. fig. 3. A. and B. he re- 
fers us to the figure of the Corallina rubens in 
feed ; which, he fays, is a true Conferva ; but the 
figure is fo bad, that I am perfwaded nobody can 
find out what he means to reprelent by it. 
I fhall therefore conclude this letter, with re- 
commending to thefe ingenious gentlemen, to ana- 
lyfe thefe bodies chemically, and with care ; and 
likewife to view them with the fame attention, that 
I have done, in the microfcope ; if fo, I am 
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