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| Plate VII. 
| Fig. a. 4. 
Natural Hiftory. ben 
Fig. 4, in the fame Plate, fhews a Part of it snail, 
I have not yet received any Specimens with Velieles, 4 q 
perfedt as to be able to defcribe them. - Ah yi 2.0 
"This was: lately t taken up, among il ae Sea Produdions 
by the Fifhermen near the Harbour of Dublin atte iain 
Ne II. Corallina Mufes a pennata ramus Se opine i 
tis falcatis R.S, N°. 16. P. Ue: age it, 
Sickle Coralline. 
“This elegant feathered iGoraltite Lime to Rocke aut : 
Shells by little wrinkled. Tubes, and rifes from thence into 
erect waved Stems, which are furrounded fromBottom to Top 
with pennated Branches: ; the {maller Divifions of thefe haye 
Rows of little Denticles, or Teeth, on the Side; and bend — 
inward, as they become ‘dry, in the Form of a Sickle, 
Fig. a, Ne x1. reprefents the natural Appearance at 
this Coralline. — : | 
The Wetcles are nearly of an  ieeay inal Shared tee ii d 
at Bottom, and narrower at Top where the Opening is; fome 
of them appear, as if they had a Calyx like a Flower at the 
Bottom of the Veficle: Moft of the dry’d Specimens, I have | 
yet feen, have had an Orange-colour’ d vifcid Subftance in 
them, which feems of the fame Nature with BH Gonna of ih 
the reft.. 9 : 
Fig. 4, is Part of a Branch, with its finale Ramifation i 
like SGLIEY and its Veficles “magnified. 
This Coralline is common on the Coaft of Kent, near \. 
Sheerne/s, in the Ifland of Sbeppey ; and on the Shores of EEN oe 
other Parts of thefe Kingdoms, ip 
ON ae : 
