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S E Q_ U E L. 
Title read December 17, 1767. 
Read Jan. 14, T COME now to anfwer Do&or Bader, 
17(08 • who aflerts pofitively, in his memoir 
publidied in the Tranfa&ions of the Royal Society* 
Vol. LII. p. hi, that all the Corallines, which 
you and I have defcribed, are plants of the genus of 
Conferva. 
In order to explain myfelf, it will be neceflary to 
let him know what I mean by a Conferva, and what 
I would be underdood by a Coralline, according to > 
your fydem. .... 
Bya Conferva I mean a plant with jointed filaments, 
either Angle or branched, bearing fruit, which are 
dilpofed in different ways: in Latin, thus, 
Conferva eft plant a, cm funt filamenta articulata , 
vel fimplicia vel ramofa y jruElijicationes vario -modo 
difpofitce habentia. _ . . 
By a Coralline I mean an animal growing in tne 
form of a plant, whofe dem is dxed to other bodies. 
The dem is compofed of capillary tubes, whofe exr 
tremities, 
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