MILFOIL ANTIPATHES, 
Generic Character. 
Animal growing in the form of a plant. 
Stem expanded at the bafe, internally horny, befet 
with frnall fpines: externally covered with a 
gelatinous flelh befet with numerous polype¬ 
bearing tubercles. 
Specific Character , &c. 
ANTIPATHES with numerous, incurved, pin¬ 
nated branches, with the pinnules fpined on 
their upper fide. 
Yarrow-like ANTIPATHES. 
Ellis and Soland. Zooph. p. 102. 
The Antipathes myriophylla or Milfoil Antipathes 
grows principally in the Indian ocean: its height is 
about a foot or a foot and half. Its color is either 
brown or yellowifh-brown, more or lefs deep in 
different individuals. 
