M I L 
22. Millepora clathrata, or latticed millepore: umbi- 
licate, reticulate, with flat dichotomous anaftomofing 
branches, porous on one furface. Inhabits the Indian 
Ocean, and appears an intermediate fpecies between M. 
cellulofa and lichenoides: white, and f'eated on a folid 
centre. 
23. Millepora reticulum, or webbed millepore: com- 
poled of very-much-branched anaftomofing cancellate 
threads. This fpecies inhabits the Mediterranean, cover¬ 
ing the furface of fhells and the roots of Fuci: refembles 
a fpider’s web, and is compofed of fine capillary threads. 
24. Millepora fpongites, or fponge-ftone millepore : 
caulefcent, ereft, with angular imbricate anaftomofing 
branches. This delicate coral is marked on the under 
fide of the cells with lines between each row; the open¬ 
ings of the cells have a little margin round them, and 
there are frequently little round balls on the upper part 
of many of them, which probably are their ovaries. The 
cells in their lines are generally alternate to thofe that 
lie next to them, like a fponge. It is found in the Me¬ 
diterranean Sea, of various fizes, from two to four inches 
diameter, and often a foot long; fometimes of a milk- 
white, at other times of a grey, colour. 
25. Millepora coriacea, or leathery millepore: fub- 
membranaceous, femi-orbicular, and nearly horizontal, 
with a few pores on the lower furface. Inhabits the At¬ 
lantic and Numidian feas, covering the ftems of the Fucus 
cartilagineus, and forming covers for the chambers of 
other corals. Probably not of this genus. 
26. Millepora calcarea, or chalky millepore: branched, 
milk-white, folid, dichotomous, with tapering coalefcing 
fubdivifions. The branches grow fmaller towards the 
end, and are generally regularly fubdivided. Inhabits the 
Mediterranean ; four inches high. See the Plate, fig. 3. 
27. Millepora polymorpha, or Britilh officinal coral: 
cruftaceous, folid, irregularly lhaped, but generally branch¬ 
ed and tuberculate, and without vilibie pores. This is 
the common coral of the fhops; and is found in great 
plenty in the feas round thefe iflands, efpecially near Fal¬ 
mouth, and the Ifle of Man. It is of very different co¬ 
lours, as red, yellow, greenifh, afh-coloured, but feldom 
quite white. It is ufed in many places for manure, par¬ 
ticularly at Falmouth, according to Mr. Ray; and is fup- 
pofed by feme late authors, but with no degree of proba¬ 
bility, to be driven by the wind and waves hither from 
the American iflands. It is frequently lhaped like the 
kernel of a walnut, but often in larger compreffed maffes, 
fometimes like a bunch of very fmall grapes, moil fre¬ 
quently in tuberculated branches. See fig. 4, 5. When 
taken out of the lea, it is covered with a flime. The pores 
on the furface are very fmall; fo that to fee them it is 
neceffary to wipe the flime very clean off, and to ufe a 
large magnifier. 
28. Millepora decuffata, or interfered millepore: com- 
poied of chalky ereCt plates, or laminae, crofting one ano¬ 
ther, and uniting differently here and there. This has 
been fuppofed to be a variety of the following. It was 
found on the coaft of Portugal, where it grows in maffes 
of five and fix inches diameter, as fhown at fig. 6. 
29. Millepora alga, or lea-weed millepore: confiftingof 
Header femicircular plates, or laminae, growing horizon¬ 
tally. This moil delicate millepore is of various colours, 
as red, purplifh, yellowifh, and whitifh. It is found on 
the coaft of Cornwall, adhering to and covering the M. 
polymorpha, or coral of the fhops. It is extremely thin 
and brittle: the femicircular plates are of various fizes, 
and conftantly grow horizontally; their margins bend 
over, which makes them convex on their upper fides, and 
concave underneath. This is remarkably full of the lame- 
fhaped ovaries with the M. polymorpha ; and the cellular 
ftrufture of the internal part of both exactly agree. The 
pores on the under part are to be dilcovered, by good 
glaffes. A fmall piece of this is fhown at fig. 7. and the 
fame magnified at fig. 8. to exhibit the ranges of the cells, 
as they are difpofed one over the other. 
Vol. XV. No. 1051. 
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30. Millepora pumicofa, or pumice-millepore: irregu¬ 
larly fliaped, brittle, rough, and compofed of Iharp- 
pointed roundilh cells. This inhabits the Britilh coafts, 
and is often found incrufting many of the Sertularise, in 
fmall irregular mafles, appearing like white fand ftrongly 
united together. The branches are generally cylindrical, 
each about half an inch long, with cells placed round 
about in alternate order, fliaped like an helmet juft open¬ 
ing. Probably a Madrepora. 
31. Millepora tubulofa, or tubular millepore : parafitie;, 
cruftaceous, pale purple, with fmall tubular cells difpofed 
in tranfverfe rows or whorls. This little coral is fre¬ 
quently found creeping up the Sertularia falcata, which 
it adheres to, and furrounds with many united rows of 
little parallel tubes. Thefe rows are frequently feparated 
into narrow divifions, which bend a little back, and ap¬ 
pear like fo mariy fmall combs. Thefe maffes are found 
abbut half an inch, feldom above three-quarters of an 
inch, diameter. This fpecies inhabits the Mediterranean 
Sea, as well as on our coafts. 
32. Millepora pinnata, or jagged millepore: dichoto¬ 
mous, ere£t, with tubular pores difpofed in a pinnate or¬ 
der. Inhabits the Mediterranean. It is greyilh when 
recent, fometimes green; about an inch high, and very 
brittle. 
33. Millepora liliacea, or lily-millepore : white; creep¬ 
ing proftrate, in obtufe linear divifions, with tubular 
pores on the upper furface difpofed in tranfverfe rows. 
Inhabits the Mediterranean and Cornifh coaft; and, ex¬ 
cept in colour, fomewhat refembles M. tubulofa. 
34. Millepora cardunculus, or thiftie-millepore : irre¬ 
gularly fhaped, membranaceous, with concentric wrinkles 
and central triangular pyramidal tubes. This alfo inha¬ 
bits the Mediterranean, and is generally found adhering 
to Sertularia;. It is minute, white, fubpellucid, and fome¬ 
what refembling the flower of a thilfle. 
The above article, and the accompanying Plate, are 
feleCted from Ellis’s Zoophytes, as arranged and deferibed 
by Dr. Solander. 
MIL'LER, f. One who attends a mill.—-Gillius, who 
made enquiry of millers who dwelt upon its fhore, re¬ 
ceived anfwer, that the Euripus ebbed and flowed four 
times a-day. Brown s Vulgar Eri'ours. 
More water glideth by the mill 
Than wots the miller of. Shakejpcare. 
MILDER (Joe), by whofe collection of “Jells” our 
anceftors and ourfelves have been, and our defeendants 
perhaps to latell pofterity will be, entertained, was born 
in the year 1684, and died in 1738. This is all we know 
of him. He was buried in St. Clement’s c’nurch-yard, un¬ 
der a llone bearing an epitaph written by the threflier- 
poet, Stephen Duck. The Hone was dilcovered, much 
defaced, in Nov. 1815, and the infeription has been re¬ 
newed at the expenie of that parifh. Our readers will 
readily excufe us if we endeavour to prevent it from be¬ 
ing again loft. It is as follows : 
Here lye the Remains of honeft Jo. Miller : 
who was a tender Hulband, a fincere Friend, 
a facetious Companion, and an excellent Comedian. 
He departed this life the 15th day of Augult 1738, aged 
54 years. 
If humour, wit, and honelty, could lave 
The hum’rous, witty, honeft, from y e Grave, 
The Grave had not fo loon this tenant found, 
Whom honefty, and wit, and humour, crown’d. 
Could but elteem and love preferve our breath. 
And guard us longer from the ftroke of Death, 
The ftroke of Death on him had later fell, 
Whom all mankind efteem’d and lov’d fo well. S. Duck. 
Gent. Mag. Nov. 1815. 
MIL'LER (James), an Englilh dramatic writer, was 
born in the year 1703. He was defigned for bufmefs, and 
received an education luitable to it; but, feeling a repua:- 
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