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fibres are feen rifing out of the circumference of 
their heads, which they foon ufe to procure food. 
When they are thus arrived at a mature Hate, they 
fend forth other young ones from their fides : fo that 
though many of them foon fall oft, and provide for 
themfelves, yet the animal frequently branches out 
into a numerous offspring, growing out of one com- 
mon parent, each of which not only procures nou- 
rifhment for itfelf, but for the whole family. 
I come now to your Lordfhip’s new animal ; and, 
for the Satisfadion of the Royal Society, lay before 
them one of your Lordfhip’s fpecimens preferved in 
fpirits,. with a diffedion of one of them, to fhew 
its internal ftrudure, together with three fpecies of 
Adinia, or Animal flowers, fent to your Lordfhip 
from the new* ceded iflands. 
This compound animal, which is of a tender 
flefhy fubftance, confifts of many tubular bodies, 
fwelling gently towards the upper part, and ending 
like a bulb, or very finall onion ; on the top of 
each is its mouth, furrounded by one or two rows of 
tentacles, or claws, which when con traded look like 
circles of beads. 
The lower part of all thefe bodies have a com- 
munication with a firm flefhy wrinkled tube, which 
flicks faft to the rocks, and fends forth other flefhy 
tubes, which creep along them in various diredions-. 
Thefe. are full of different fizes of thefe remarkable 
animals, which rife up irregularly in groupes near to 
one another. 
This adhering tube, that fecures them faft to the 
rock, or flielly bottom, is worthy of our notice. 
The knobs that we obferve,. are formed in feve'ral 
parts 
