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femi-tranfparent fkin, are all inferted in the feveral 
claws round the animal’s mouth, and are plainly the 
tendons of the mufcles, for moving and directing 
the claws, at the will of the animal ; thefe may be 
likewife traced down to the adhering tube. 
As this fpecimen has been preferved in fpirits, the 
colour of the animal when living cannot certainly be 
known ; it is at prefent of a pale yellowifh brown. 
With regard to its name, it may be called Adtinia 
fociata, or the Clufter animal flower. 
Among the critics, my Lord, I am aware of this ; 
that it may be faid, that an animal compounded of 
many animals has not a very philofophical found. 
But it is well known to thofe, who underfland the 
nature of zoophytes ; that there are many kinds of 
thefe animals, as well fuch as fwim about freely, as 
fuch as are fixt to rocks and fliells in the fea, that 
have a great many mouths in the form of polypes, 
and yet are but Angle animals ; fuch as the great va- 
riety of Pennatulas, or Sea pens, among thofe that 
fwim about, and moil of the Sertularias, Gorgonias, 
with many others, among thofe that are fixt. Yet 
this new animal of your Lordfhip’s differs very 
much from the generality of thefe. I think I may 
compare it, to fpeak in the flyle of thofe who main- 
tain that zoophytes vegetate, to a timber tree, that 
fends out at a diftance round it many fuckers from its 
roots, which fuckers coming in time to be trees, 
thefe may and will, with propriety, be reckoned fo 
many diltindt trees, though connected at their roots 
with the parent tree, and that without any abfur- 
dity. > 
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