loo Animalcules in 'Waters. 
viviparous. If you loofen their Hold, carry 
them away, and keep them in Water, they 
will fix themfelves to the firft convenient 
Place they find. When the Sea-Mujhroom 
is about to open, it raifes itfelf, and thrufts 
out two little white and firiped Bodies like 
Bladders, round which appears a great Va¬ 
riety of Points or Trunks of different Sixes 
and Colours ; whence fome Naturalifts have 
called it the Sea-Anemone. This Opening, 
not unlike the blowing of a Flower, has 
Inclined others to look upon it as a Sort of 
Plant, or elfe as partaking both of the Ani¬ 
mal and Vegetable Nature. But fince all 
thefe little Points or Studs are not Leaves, 
but a Sort of Snouts or Trunks, through 
which this Creature fucks in its Nourish¬ 
ment, as the Sea-Urchin and Star-Fi/h do 
through their fine Reeds or Prickles, we 
cannot deny it a Place in the Rank of Ani¬ 
mals ; and especially after fo remarkable a 
Circumfiance (confirmed by ocular Testi¬ 
mony) as that of three or four young ones 
iffuing from the Parent upon fqueezing it. 
There is a Sort of Star-Fijh , called by 
Rond?let i us, p. 121, Stella Arborefcens , 
which, from a Body fomewhat like the Sea- 
Urchin, fends out five Branches in Form of 
a Star : thefe five divide into ten ; thofe ten 
again into twenty ; the twenty into forty; 
the forty into eighty; the eighty into one 
hundred and fixty j the one hundred and 
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