CRIMSON TUBIPORE, 
OR 
ORGAN CORAL. 
Generic Character. 
Animal allied (probably) to the genus Nereis. 
Coral con’filling of eredt cylindric parallel tubes. 
Specific Character , &c. 
TUBIPORE with fafciculated connedted tubes, 
and diftant tranfverfe membranaceous difle- 
piments. 
Argenv. conch, t. 26. fig. A. 
Ellis Zooph. p. 144. t. 27. 
This is one of thofe Lithophytes which in ftru&ure 
and general appearance feem plainly to indicate the 
operation of animals, the whole mafs confiding of an 
affortment of upright parallel tubes, riling over each 
other by ftages, fomewhat in the manner of the cells of 
an honeycomb. The ftages or tranfverfe diflepiments 
by which the ftrata of tubes are connected, are of 
unequal heights in different parts of the mafs, and the 
tubes of each ftratum fieldom rife to the height of an 
inch, and fometimes do not exceed half an inch, 
and their diameter is from about a tenth to an eighth of 
an 
