S | Natural Hiftory of 
of which fupport a Cup of a bell-fhaped Figure, oly 5 
indented round the Brim; thefe are placed in fugha man. — 
ner as to correfpond exaélly in Point of Situation with the i 
others, and to give the whole very much the Appearance of _ 
the Plant called Horfe-tail, or Egui/etum ; the capillaryStalks 
and their Cups being al difpoted i in Whirls, or like ae 4 
for Candles, . a 
Fig. a, Ne. 20. Plate XIII, gives us s the Figure of is a i 
ralline as it was received. a 
Fig. 4, fhews a magnified Batt of one Sof the Beane 
covering 5 Tubes, which compofe the Stalk, and 5 twifled 
- Stalks with their Cups at cage! Diftances in each Whirl. a 
-patexiv. N°. 21.  Corallina minima fcandens, vefi fculas campers | 
Fig. 4 jy fusmino caule lineari contorto gerens. 
Small climbing Coralline with bell-thaped Ga : sie | 
This very minute Coralline arifes from {mall irregul le . 
Tubes, which adhere to) and twine about, other coe i 
particularly the Sickle’ Coralline. | 
Exceeding fmall twifted Stalks go out ‘from hs ea 
Stem, which fupport little bell-fhaped Cups with indented — 
Brims: At the Bottom of each, where they j join to ‘the Stalk, a 
the Microfcope difcovers to us a very minute Spherule, « or litle | 
Ball, as in fome Drinking-glafles. I had the Pleafure while 
Iwas at Brighthelmffone in ‘fune 1754, of feeing the Ane — 
mals of this Coralline extending their Claws, or Tentaculi, and 
moving their Stems: One of thefe as it appeared to us in the — 
Microfeope, is defcribed at the upper Part of the Fig. 4 
Plate XIV. Their natural Size, as they adhere to the Sickle 
- €oralline, may be {een at Fig. ay.N°, 21; | 
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