CHAPTER VI. 
CORALLINES. 
pleasure Nature sran/to take in "uperaddtatt eS ^ 5™ a sweet confl i™ation of the 
poor and bungling are all the ImitaCs of Lt f Wh J” ‘° m ° S ‘ of ber W0l ks - How 
-t, we shall ait down-na, bnwl 
type, that of the 
mass, consisting 0 f vertical a ^<n ^LT i COmposed of a flesh 7> sponge-like 
a 1 ■ ' 0110 8lde - The eggs are contained in the tubes and 
n 1 ? T T ! ,e « f *k» polypes' are 
SOmeWlmt lite the b ‘ tba ° f » feather, and 
of G “eT’J'' k l“ hh “ Pt ° C “ rea ,tem ‘ he mme 
present eight perigastric lamellar •°tl ' X ”^’ “ C °“ bj Tll ''' lr bodies 
epicolse. We ri„n," r ' f l"’ 1 ™ 1 ® » often formed of 
Polypier ceases to be parenchymomT' th^t' am ° n ^ flu> “orgomd* the 
its axis assumes a hornv , mr l l> ? 7 th 4 Spong y au<] “Hular ; that 
in the corallines Tn tl ' l + es ns ant consistence, which becomes stony 
CK I *“* ** este “' *h is the special 
h.vT, ,l: ,^ ST , , yS rem “ m " “« ,jn ‘he surface. We shall 
Pliciti g Gla ° ^ ° rganlzatl0rl > manners, and mode of multi 
their 1 amOU i A1 cy°naria when we come to treat of corals and 
*d r, S T 0 ^ “f i’T A1 ” J ““ “ rXy 
III1W shall consider I. The II. The Go™„ mV fc 
11,6 W. The Alc^-ia, properly so calbd 
