Veficulated CorALtLines. 
Hane than any belonging to the whole Tribe of Coral- 
ines, Wa 
Fig. 4, is the magnified Appearance of .a {mall Branch 
of this Coralline with its curious Veficles. 
In this magnified Branch, at B, we may obferve, that the 
Branches of this Coralline now-and-then terminate in irregu- 
larly contorted zwbw/i, not unlike thofe it begins with . 
I obferved at Brighthelmftone many Specimens of this Spe~ _ 
cies adhering to Oyfter-fhells, and growing ereé& upon them; 
thefe were brought to us in a recent State, juft taken out of 
the Sea. I took avery minute Branch from one of them, 
together with its Veficles, and plac’d itin Sea-water upon the 
Stage of my Microfcope, and in a very fhort time I found the 
Animal in the Branch alive, extending its ¢entaculi or claws 
out of all its Denticles, but the Animal in the Veficle was con- 
tracted, and did not appear to move. © a les, 
_ Fig. Cy gives the Appearance of this Branch in the Micro- 
{cope. Here the Spines, which were folded up in the Veficles 
of the Branch at Figure 4, are all extended in the Figure C. 
Nv 8. Corallina pumila repens minus ramofa, denticellis bijugis. Place V. 
R.S, N’. 19. p. 37: Pea 
~ Sea-Oak Coralline. | yearn 
This little creeping Coralline arifes here and there from 
{mall thready twbu/i, which run along the Surface of the broad- 
leaf’d indented Sea~Oak Fucus. This is found in great Plenty 
on the Sea-fhore near Sheerne/s in the Ifland of Sheppey. ‘The 
fame Coralline is found fometimes creeping on the filiquofe or 
podded Fucus. _ | Coie eet 
The Denticles are blunt at. the Openings, and placed in 
Pairs exactly oppofite to each other ; each Pair feems to be 
C Hos jointed 
