of the EscHARA. 
Cm ATP NT 
Of the Efchara. 
\HOUGH thefe Bodies properly belong to the Mille- 
pora, yet, as I have generally followed the celebrated 
_ feription to each, as may enable the Naturalifts eafily to rank 
_ them in their proper Places. 
sah My Author's Charateriftic of this Claf is, that ten Sur- 
if ORay, I fhall keep to his Appellations; adding fuch a De-— 
faces fhould refemble that of a Web of Cloth. And the Mi- 
_ ctofcope informs us, that they confift of Arrangements of very 
igs {mall Cells, whofe Surfaces appear much in that Form. 
Geo 'Phe very near Refemblance, that the two farft of the fol-_ 
lowing E/chara bear to Leaves of Plants, has given Occafion 
tothe botanic Writers to clafs them among the Fucus's. 
Naz. Efchara foliacea, millepora, tenera anguptior, foliolis 
ia) quali abfeiffis, CS cellulis oblongis alternis uiringue infiruéla. 
Fucus marinus, [crupofus, albidus, anguftior, compreffus 
7 
 extremitatibus quapt abfciffis. VA. Ox. IIL. pag, 646. 
Phe R.S. p. 43. — . 7 
+ ~. Narrow-leaved Hornwrack. | 
a Th Es eafy Tranfition in the Order of Nature, fro 
of Stalk: This divides, as it rifles, into narrow Leaves, made 
on the other Side of the Leaf, like the Honeycomb: F ie 
SS. ae ar 7 | 7 _thefe 
the lafty: 
“Chafs which was the Keratophyta, to the firft of this, is re-_ 
 markable; for, in this Species, the Rows of Cells continue to ~ 
proceed from {mall Tubes, that unite together, and forma kind — 
" “up of regular Rows of oblong Square fhaped Cells, placed © 
we alternately by each other, and oppofite. to an equal Number 
