Part III. 
Of Corah. 
GHAP. nr. 
Of CORALS, and other lify MARINE Productions, 
T Hefe having alfo a refemblance unto Plants, and a near 
analogy unto thofe Stones, laft defcribed in the pre¬ 
cedent Chapter; they may therefore not unaptly be here 
fubjoyn’d. 
A Piece of CORAL, fmooth, white, and folid 5 with its 
Bafe or Root fpread abroad upon a Chalky Bed. 
A SPRIG of folid Red Coral. 
A knoted TRUNK of the famed inches and I in compafs. 
A Piece of folid CORAL both RED and WHITE, 
growing together. 
The ROOT of a folid Red CORAL, fpread upon the 
TRUNK of a White CORAL: in the fame manner, as 
the Membranous Roots of Sea-Shrubs are fpread upon 
Stones or other Ready Bodies. As if it had been indeed 
originally one of thofe Shrubs 5 particularly, of the Lignous 
kind, which hath no Pith , like the Horny 3 but, as this 
Coral , is altogether folid. 
The SHRUB-CORAL. Corallium fruticofum. So I call 
it, for its more efpecial fimilitude to a little Shrub. Tis of 
a brownifh colour, upright, and very much branched. 
Curioufly adorned round about with Stria: running by the 
lcngthjlooking like the fupcrficial Fibers in the ftalks of fome 
Plants. And within, radiated, as the fame when cut tranf- 
uerjly. In fome of the greater Branches, the Rays being 
pointed or pricked, as by the laxer diftribution of the Fibers, 
they are in fome Plants. And many of them coming fhort of 
the Centre, fo as alfo to form a kind of Pith. 
The KNEED CORAL. Corallium geniadatum. Pfeu- 
docorallium fungofum Ambrofini. (a) Madrepora ramofa Impe- (a) Aldrov. 
rati, (b) By which Name Bauhinm alfo defcribes it well. 
’Tis ftriated without, and radiated within, almoft as in the cap. 4. 
precedent. And is alfo ringed or knoted without, after 
the manner of Canes , or rather the upright Equifetum , 
and near of the fame thicknefs. Imperatus hath another 
kind a kin to this, yet diilincT 3 not only knoted, but joynted, 
and by him therefore called CORALO Articulate, in which 
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