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the transverse partitions membranaceous and distant. This 
is the purple tubipora of Pallas, of which he mentions a 
variety, or the flexuose tubipora.—It is found in the Ame¬ 
rican, Indian, and Red seas, affixed to other corals or rocks; 
and is used by the Indians as an antidote to strangury and 
wounds inflicted by poisonous animals. 
2. Tubipora catenulata.—.With parallel tubes, connected 
into a lamina anastomosing with a folded wreath.—Found 
on the shores of the Baltic sea. 
3. Tubipora serpens.—With cylindric, erect, very short, 
distant, axillary tubules; divaricated at the dichotomous 
base : the Millepora liliacea of Pallas.—Found in the Me¬ 
diterranean and Northern seas, and on the shores of the 
Baltic. 
4. Tubipora fascicularis.—With filiform fasciculated 
tubes; the sides anastomosing.—Found on the shores of 
Gothland. 
5. Tubipora ramosa.—With roundish interstices, and 
simple, flexuose, aggregate, conglutinated tubules of the 
confluent branches.—Found in the White sea. 
6. Tubipora pinnata.—Dichotomous, erect, with tubules 
distributed in the form of small feathers.—Found in the 
Mediterranean sea. 
7. Tubipora penicillata.—Stalky; the top incrassated, 
and formed of tubules connected towards the base.—Found 
in the Greenland sea, affixed to testacea. 
8. Tubipora flabellaris.—Depressed, flabelliform, radiated 
with parallel conjoined tubules.—Found as the former. 
9. Tubipora stellata.—With separate tubes, combined in 
layers or tables, many of these tables being remote, hori¬ 
zontally tubulous, and radiated with striae on the surface.— 
Found among fossils. 
10. Tubipora strues.—With distant diverging tubes, loose 
behind, and often bent; with tubules small, simple, and 
horizontal, combined.—Found among fossils. 
TUB1SE, a small town of the Netherlands ; 16 miles 
south-south-east of Brussels, on the small river Senne, with 
1700 inhabitants. 
TUBNA, a small town of Algiers, in Africa, the ancient 
Thubana. There are considerable ruins, beneath which 
the Arabs believe that treasure is buried; 110 miles south- 
south-west of Constantina. 
TUBNEY, a parish of England, in Berkshire ; 4 miles 
west-by- north of Abingdon. 
TUBCEUF, a small town in the north-west part of 
France, department of La Mayenne, with 1000 inhabitants; 
17 miles north-east of Mayenne. 
TUBUGANTI, a river of the province of Darien, which 
runs to the west, and falls into the Chucunaqui. 
TUBUL, a river of Chili, which runs north-north-west, 
and enters the Carampangue. 
TU'BULAR, adj. [ tiibulus , Lat.] Resembling a pipe 
or trunk; consisting of a pipe; long and hollow; fistular. 
—He hath a tubular or pipe-like' snout, resembling that of 
the hippocampus or horse-fish. Grew. 
TUBULARIA, a genus of the Zoophyta class of worms; 
the characters of which are, that the animal is vegetating and 
radicated; the head crested with tentacula, generating small 
eggs; and that the stem is tubulous, horny, very simple or 
branched, affixed at the bottom, and the animal thrust out at 
the apex. Among the following species are included several 
of the tubular corallines of Ellis. 
1. Tubularia cornucopice.—With simple tube, attenuated 
below, flexuose and rough.—Found among the corals of the 
American and Mediterranean seas. Colour dusky-yellow. 
2. Tubularia indivisa. —With very simple stalks, and 
wreathed joints. One of Mr. Ellis’s tubular corallines.— 
Found in the European and Mediterranean seas. Colour 
yellowish-grey. 
3. Tubularia ramosa. — With branched stalks, and 
wreathed joints. One of Ellis’s.—Found in the European 
sea. The soft tubules sordidly grey. 
4. Tubularia ramea.—With compound branched tubes, 
large and small branches alternate.—Found in the Mediter¬ 
ranean ocean. Brownish.grey. 
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5. Tubularia fistulosa.—With dichotomous articulated 
stalks, with impressions in form of a rhombus. Bugle coral¬ 
line of Ellis.—Found in the European, Mediterranean, and 
Atlantic seas. Pale-grey. 
6. Tubularia fragilis. — With dichotomous stalks, and 
compressed joints.—Found in the American sea. White or 
greenish. 
7. Tubularia muscoides.—With sub-dichotomous stalks, 
wholly annulate-rugose. One of the tubular corallines of 
Ellis.—Found in the European and Mediterranean seas. 
Pale-grey. 
8. Tubularia papyracea.—With a very large papyraceous 
tubule, alternately ramose.—Found in the Indian ocean. 
9. Tubularia penicillus.—With aggregate, simple, radi¬ 
cated tubules, proliferous and penicillated at the apex.— 
Found in the American sea. It is doubted whether this and 
the last be of this geuus. 
10. Tubularia acetabulum.—With filiform stalks; the 
terminal pelta or shield striated, radiated and calcareous.— 
Found in the Mediterranean and American seas. White 
and soft, and adjoined to testacea. 
11. Tubularia splachnea.—With capillary very simple 
stalks; the terminal pelta smooth and membranaceous.— 
Found in the Mediterranean sea. Of horn-colour. 
12. Tubularia coryna.—Sub-ramose, filiform, papyrace¬ 
ous, jointed, with ovate-acuminated capsules, and dilatable 
mouth, and terminated with cylindric armed tentacula.— 
Found on the shores of Holland and England. Arenaceous 
and reddish. 
13. Tubularia affinis.—Simple, sub-annulated, soft; with 
the tentacula of the mouth encompassing the papilla attenu¬ 
ated.—Found on the English coast, adhering to fuci, and 
akin to the last. 
14. Tubularia fabricia.—Stellated, with pinnated cirrhi, 
and six rays encompassing the mouth,—Found on the shores 
of Norway and Greenland, often in the fissures of rocks. 
Grey, green, or white. 
15. Tubularia longicornis.—With two setaceous cirrhi, 
longer than the tubule.—Habitation unknown. 
16. Tubularia multicornis.—With more than twenty 
cirrhi centrally white; body round and hyaline, tubule 
mace-like.—Habitation unknown. 
17. Tubularia campanulata.—With lunated crest; orifices 
of the vagina annulated; body concealed within the vagina. 
—Found in the stagnant waters of Europe. 
18. Tubularia repens.—Crested, with cirrhi on both sides 
radiated; vagina extended, tubule opaque, procumbent.— 
Found in the stagnant waters of Northern Europe. 
19. Tubularia reptans.—With lunated crest; body tractile 
beyond the vagina.—Found in the stagnant waters'of Eu¬ 
rope. Hyaline, soft, with about sixty cilia. 
20. Tubularia sultana.—With infundibuliform crest, 
ciliated at the base.—Found in the pools of Gottingen. 
21. Tubularia stellaris.—Crested, with pectinated cirrhi, 
brown, annulated erect tubule.—Found in the fucus of the 
Baltic sea. 
22. Tubularia simplex.—With eight linear cirrhi, and 
conic hyaline tubule.'—Found in the fucus of the Norwegian 
sea. 
23. Tubularia Spallanzani.—With five plumose cirrhi, 
pectinated on both sides, and cylindric, horny tubules, 
below incurvated.—Found in the Mediterranean sea. 
24. Tubularia magnifica.—With a double concentric 
range of fistulous tentacula, and a membranaceous, con¬ 
tractile, viscid, cylindric tubule inclosing the inhabitant.— 
Found in calm parts of the Mediterranean. 
TU'BULATED, or Tu'bulous, adj. [ tubulus , Lat.] 
Fistular; longitudinally hollow. — The teeth of vipers 
are tubulated for the conveyance of the poison into the 
wound they make; but their hollowness doth not reach to 
the top of the tooth. Derham. 
TU'BULE, s. [ tubulus , Lat] A small pipe, or fistular 
body.—As the ludus Helmontii, and the other nodules, have 
in them sea-shells that- were incorporated with them during 
the time of their formation at the deluge, so these stones had 
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