RED CORAL, 
Generic Character. 
The Coral having the habit or appearance of a 
plant. 
The Stem , or internal part, differing in the diffe¬ 
rent Ipecies, and generally either of a horny 
or a ftony appearance. 
The cortical part foft, and inhabited by animals 
refembling polypes. 
Specific Character , &e. 
BRIGHT-RED STONY-BRANCHED CO¬ 
RAL, with longitudinal ftriae, 
COMMON RED CORAL. 
The Ifis nobilis, or common red Coral, is one of 
thofe numerous fubmarine productions which, by the 
almoft general confent of modem naturalifts, are re¬ 
garded as the fabrication of animals refembling polypes, 
which refide in the cavities fo conftantly feen in the foft 
or cortical part of the coral; and the impreflions orveftiges 
of which are vifible even on the furface of the hard 
part or the coral itlelf; being generally feated at diftant in¬ 
tervals, and appearing like fmall impreffed fpots, while 
the 
