WORMS. ZOOPHYTA. 94. Antipathcs. 643 
9-i. ANTIPATIIES. Animal growing in the 
form of a plant: Jlem ex})andetl af the 
bafe, internally horny befet with fmall 
fpines, externally covered with a gela- 
tinous tlelb beiet with numerous pol vpe- 
bcaring tubercles. 
. 
With a very fimple fpiral rough ftein. 
Solavder Ellis Corall- rs. I. Ji,^ 1—6, 
Rumpf. Amh. 6. p. 202. tah. 78. C. • 
Vakntynlnd. 3. tah. 52. fg- B B. 
Eph. As. Nat. Cur. z A. 3. /s.yB. tah 4 /. 4 
Inhabits the Indian, Mediterranean and North Seas : of a hard 
horny black fubftance, exceedingly brittle, very long and 
vario'ufly twilled, and about the liie of a writing pen. 
i 
Very much branched, with fcatlered fpreading very rough 
fubulate branches. 
Solamler iA Ellis Corail. p. lOO. n. z tah. 19. fig. 7.8. 
Inhabits the Indian Ocean: deep black, with irregularly dup ded 
and varioufly direfled ovate cavities difpeilcd about the 
branches, of a brownifli-yellow colour, and fuppofed to be 
the ovaries, 
^“^pinnata Branched, pinnate, rough, with fetaccous alternate fub- 
divifions and a few others proceeding tranfverfely 
from them. 
Solander and Ellis Corail, />, lot, ?/. 3. tah. 19,/. 9, to. 
Inhabits the Me.diterranean : cinereous, with amber Ipines. 
^y^iophjlla With numerous incurved pinnate branches, the fubdivifions 
with other leller fpinous pinnules on the upper luic. 
Solander and Ellis Corull p. 102. n. 4. tab. 19./. 1 1, l a. 
Shaw Natur. Mn/ccll. tab. 352. 
Peti<v. Gax.. tab, 35 ' fs- , 
Breyn prodr. t. p. SJ- 'C. p- H-tab-Zt). r . .-u 
Inhabils the Indian Ocean, and has the appearance of a fine Ihad; 
Ihrub ; very rjugii and yellowilh-brown. 
^hecu. With fpinous fetaceous clofeiy paniclcd branches. 
'''‘ides, Solander and Ellis CoralL p. tOZ. it. <^, ■ r l 
Inhaoits South Carolina, about 2 feet high, and riles from a broad 
Ipread bale, dividing into feyeral large branches fiat on one iide 
vvith a groove along the middle ; it then fubdivides into liliaiitr 
branches, forming clofe panicles not unlike the_ fox-tail grals : 
the outlidc gieyilh, the infide black and yerj briitie. 
4 M 2 CupirelJns. 
