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tab. xli. 
MILLEPORA compressa? 
Class 6. Vermes. Order 4. Zoophyta. 
Gen. Char. Animal a Hydra. Coral, generally, 
ramose, with round turbinated pores. 
Spec. Char. Stem branched, compressed, truncated 5 
pores everywhere a little prominent and rough. 
Syn. Millepora compressa? Gmel. v. 1. 3785. 
Though there are some species of coralline, much re- 
sembling this, figured in Esper and other books, yet we can 
by no means identify them as this species. The description 
in Gmelin of Millepora pumila would seem to accord with 
it; but the figure in Marsden, to which he refers, is a very 
different thing. It may therefore be considered as a species 
undescribed, and now first published as British. We do not 
understand that it i 3 uncommon on the Scottish coast, 
especially at Aberdeen. Specimens have been sent us from 
North Wales by favour of the Rev. H. Davies, with some 
other curious corallines which have not been before noticed 
as British. We hope however to see them from other 
places, that we may have more habitats for them. Perhaps 
many of this curious tribe may have been overlooked. 
