Celliferous CoraLLines. — 33 
GHA P. IV. 
Of Celliferous Corallines. 
Y Celliferous Corallines, I mean thofe {mall plant-like 
marine Bodies, which adhere to Shells, Fucus’s, 8c. 
of a brittle, cruftaceous, and tranfparent Subftance ; and 
which appear, when magnified, to be fine thin Cells, the 
Habitations of fmall Animals conneéed together, and dif 
_pofed in Variety of elegant Forms like Branches. All this 
kind effervefce with Acids. pamee 
N°. 1. Corallina cellifera, ereéta, ramofifima, tenerrima, & Piste xvi. 
plumofa. | Perel ts - Fig. a. 4. 
Corallina pumila ereta ramofor. R.S. p. 37. N°. 20. © 4“ 
Soft-feathered Coralline. — CN ater 
The Appearance of this Coralline in its firft or beginning ~ © 
State, is fo unlike itfelf in the latter or more perfect State, 
that one would be apt, at firft View, to take it for a different 
- Species. 3 3 | ; 
The lower Part of N. x. Plate XVIII. at Fig. aa,where 
it appears bare, without the feathered Branches, the Cells 
nat being opened, is this firft State. In this Condition we 
find it, in the Hortus Siccus of Mr. Buddle, in the Colle&ion 
of the late Sir Alans Sloane, by the Name of, Fucus minimus, 
hirfutus fibrillis herbaceis fimilis. D. Doody. R.S. 330. 
- But when it is in its perfe& State, thefe tubulous Stalks 
rife into beautiful plant-like Figures, with feathered Branches, 
beds iNest FE which 
