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Part III 
Of Corals 
The LOBED Alcyonium. Of a like colour and fubftancc 
■with the former: yet not compofed of round, but flat 
or lobed portions, with fome likenefs to Liverwort. 
The BUBLED Alcyon. Given by Captain Th. Fijfenden. 
About; an Eln in compafs. Gonfifting wholly of Plate- 
work., fo conjoyn’d, as to make feveral large Apertures, rim¬ 
ing one into another: fomcwhat after the manner of a Ruff: 
The Plates or whole Body compos’d of moft minute Biibles, 
divided by a very thin Sepiment, and handing all in even, 
ffrait, and parallel Rows. So that it looks not much unlike 
Linnen-Cloath: having its brown tawny colour. 
A NETED Alcyon. Retepora Imperat. So called from 
its Figure. 
MUSHROON-CORAL. Fungites. So called from a 
little likenefs it hath to a Toad-Stool. Here are divers forts. 
The WAVED Mujhroon Coral. ’Tis round, and above 
two inches over j ftriated beneath round about. The Rim 
and Area , both undulated. With thin Plates handing all 
along, and on both fides tranfverjly to the Waves. 
ANOTHER, with DOUBLE WAVES. Circular, and 
about four inches in Diametre. With the top riling high 
and round. With tranfverfe Striae, rather than Plates. And 
Waves both double,and more winding than in the former 5 
much refembling thofe of a Mans Brain. From whence, 
this fort, mold properly, are called BRAIN-STONES. 
A POLISH’D BRAIN-STONE. It much refembles a 
fort of undulated Stone. Whereof hereafter. 
Part of a large BRAIN-STONE from the Bermudas. 
The PLATED FUNGITES. So efpecially to be called, 
becaufe it hath no Undulations, but Plates only. All very 
thin and fharp, and radiated, to the circumference, after 
the manner of thofe in a common Mujhroon 3 excepting, 
that there they {land underneath, here above. This fort is 
curioufly figur’d in Calceolaria# s Mufaum. 
A FLAT RADIATED Fungites. Figur’d by Bauhinus. 
00 Lib. 39. [a) ’Tis fomewhat more than two inches broad,and with the 
fides as it were crufhed together. Waved round about, and 
the Rim raifed like a border pretty high. 
A STARRY FUNGITES. Of a circular figure 5 beneath, 
a little concave; above, convex. Wrought all over with 
a great number of fmajl radiated Stars, every where con¬ 
tiguous. A 
