is drawn up in numbers adhering to the baits of fiftu 
ermen’s lines. The animal confifts of a fomewhat 
flattened Item or body, which is furnilhed with an 
internal bone, and dilates into an expanded part con- 
fifting of a great many pinnae or lateral branches, 
which are divided on their inner edges into a number 
of tubular procelfes, through each of which is protuded 
a part of the animal, refembling the head of a hydra or 
polype : the whole animal therefore may be confidered 
as a very compound or ramified hydra or polype, the 
body of which is contained in the naked part or ftenij 
and from thence ramifies into a vaft number of procelfes, 
each furnilhed with its particular head. 
This curious animal emits a very ftrong phofphoric 
light, and it is even fo luminous that it is no uncom¬ 
mon circumftance for the filhermen to fee the fifli 
which happen to be fwimming near it, merely by the 
light of the Pennatula. Its colour is a bright red or 
crimfon, and the general fize that of the figure. 
a. One of the pinnx magnified . 
