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WORMS. ZOOPHYTA. 97. Spongia. 
CruftaCeous, coriaceous, with fcattcred tubercles each 
2 nightly toothed mouths. 
Gart. i'all. Spietl. Zool. lo, p, 40. «. 3. t, 7. 
Inhabits the Comijh Coast, adhering to the Fucus palmitus ; p* j 
reddifli or faffron colour; each of the tubercles perforate 
with a double minute fcarlet orifice. 
With numerous cylindrical ftems of a foft flelhy fubftan*^®’ 
each with a ftellate orifice at the tip. 
Phipps ^ourn. p. 199. tab. 13 3. 
Inhabits the ftiores at Spiigjiurg ; very like A. mamraillofuni. 
Green, branched, with obtufe cylindrical faftigiate branched' 
Ca'vnlin. pol. mar 3. p. 264 tahi 9. fig, 16. 
Inhabits the iflands round tbaplts, affixed to rocks. 
With 2 ftellate terminal mouths. 
Bommi AS, Vlijf- 3- /• 5 * ,■ ; 
Inhabits - — funnel-form, included in a pellucid fack or ' 
probably not of this genus. 
With 4 ftellate mouths furrounding the middle tubercle, 
4 ered terminal fmall horns. 
Bomme AS. lAUfJ 3. p. 307 fig, 6, 
Inhabits the Belgk feas : probably not of this genus. 
97. SPONGIA. Animal fixed, ftexile, torpid’ 
of various forms, compofed either ot 
ticulate fibres or mafles of fmall fpin^ 
interwoven together, and clothed with 
gelatinous flelh full of fmall mouths 
its furface, by which it abforbs and 
je6ls water. Spon$^' 
Fan-fhaped, regular, foft, with reticulate woody vei''* 
covered with pores like a honey-comb. 
Pbihf 'IranfaS 55 ^.289 Il.H. 
Pontopp Nerw. t p. 251. tab. 13 fg, 9 . 
Gunner AS Nidros. 4 /' 74 ‘^' 3 -^ r, 2 -/. 4 * 7 '" 3 » 4 ’ , 
Seba Mu/ 3. tab.q^. f, 8. Rumpf Amb. 6./. 253, tap 
Inhabits the No'^'wity and American? Teas; about 6 inches 
and 5 broad ; exaftly rcfemblcs a fmall Gorgo da 
its lhape and ramifications, except that the pores are an6 
and the lubftance is fpongy. piait!^'" 
