652 WORMS. ZOOPHYTA. 96. Alcyonium, 
Ellis Corail. p. 6l . tab. z6. A, Petiv. plerigr. tab. 1 8. f. 8. 
Bejl- Muf. tab. 24. Okar Mu/, p. Og. t. ‘^g.f. 2. 
Bonan Muf. Kirch, p. 226. n. 1 3 fg. p. 286. 
Torrub. Hill Hi/paa. tab, \o, Jtg, iz. 
Marl. Hill. Mar. p. 100. tab. ig. fg 84. 
'Pur got Mem. inllr. tab, 23. fg. D. 
Knorr Deltc. tab. A iz. fig. I, 2. A. \ 't,.f. l, 2. ■ 
Inhi-'its mefl. leas, and is often foveral feet high and expano^ 
into a 1 ,rge lurface : flexile, horny, black, the older bark whid™, 
or grey : pores irreguiariy placed, but generally in the form ° 
a quincunx : truni and branches pinnate, and by means of, r 
(mailer branches blending together forming an elegant kind 5 
net-work : polypes with 8 claws. 
96. ALCYONIUM. Animal genetally groif^' 
ing in the form of a plant; Jicm 
tielliy, gelatinous, fpongy or coriaceouSj 
befet with polype-bearing Itellate cells- 
Arhoreutn. Stem <trborefcent, wjth obtufe branches and papillary por£*‘ 
Sha-jj Nalur. Mifcell. tab. 334. Muf. 7 e£, I zo. t, lO, 
Ah. Nfrof, 4. p. 87. tab. I i.fg. I — 8. 
Pontopp. p. 274, 275. tab, 12. «.4, 5. 
Kaelreiit. no-v. Comm. Petrep. 7. p. 345. t. 13, 14. 
Iiihabits the Indian and North Seas, and grows to 6 or 7 feet 
heighth : feft thick, rofy, with tubercles unequally diipoft^’ 
I within more yellow, with a whiti/h harder lubftance refe*’’! 
bling the bony part of a Gorgonia : branches'.\cry rugged a” 
irregular. 
E.rcj. Stem arborefeent, coriaceous, fcarlct and branched 
the top, with papillary flars. 
BUrf Hif. Mar p. 85. 163 tab. 1 1, a. 74, 75. (. 38, 39. 
,Bobad. Mar. p. 1 1 4. tab. 9. fg 6, 7. 
Plane. A£t. Senens. %. p. 222. tab. 8. f. 6-8, 
Peti<v PL Ital tab. 1. fg. 2,0), 
Ciinann. Adr. l. p 45. tab. ^g, 
Schceffer Blumcnpol. 3. 
Iniiabits the Mediterranean, aflixed to rocks and fltellf, and ft®'* 
to half a foot high and as thick as a finger: (raooth, wh' 
within with a harder central lubftance : oviparous. 
*Dlftnium Without ftern, oblong, lobed, of a coriaceous wrinkled 
Itaiice covered with minute papilla;. Dead A'lans 
Lips Lon.il. p. 83. tab. 32. bg. a A. A 2. 
Ptjuoj.tnuj, t. 20. t. ic — tj. A’arr. ;V. 1293, 1294, 
