of the EscHARA. st “3 
pierced with Holes quite through, which gives it the Ap- 
~ pearance of a Net. ‘The Spaces between the Holes, on the 
~~ Infide of this Coral, are full of the {mall Entrances into the 
_ Infeéts Cells, which are prefented magnified at Fig. D. 
| ‘: The Back or under Part of the Coral is magnified at FP, 
aD thew that there is no Opening to the Cells on that Side. 
 : 
_aleafy Figure, like the preceding 
ss inverfi formé, oribus fetaceis. 
N.4. Efchara millepora, foliacea & Spongiofa, cellulis, comi Plate XXXI. 
Fig. a. A. 
: Irregular fpongy foliaceous Coralline. ’ cas 
‘The common Sea-infeéts Cell, with which moft marine = 
Bodies are over-run, is now-and-then found raifing itfelf into 
1g Corallines ; but the fame 
. 
great Regularity and Order is not fo flrially obferved in the 
~- 
 Difpofition of the Cells. 
¥ : Fig. a, N°. 4. gives us the natural Appearance of this irre- 
“Bilar fpongy Coralline, Part “of which, 
This has given many ingenious Perfons an Opinion, that 
is magnified at Fi- 
Sr 4 
r 
7 ; iv 2 oa : 
_ Fig. 4, reprefents the Manner in which thefe Infects fur 
round and inveft fome of the Pucws’s with their Cells. 
the Keratophyta are of the fame Nature; that is, that they 
are no more than Sea-plants, on which different Species of 
- Sea-Infeéts build their calearious Nefts ; but this, we hope, has 
been already explained fufficiently ; and fome of the miftaken 
Notions, concerning their Formation, removed. 
‘i Fig. D, in Plate XXIX. reprefents fome of the fame Kind rate XXIX. 
of common Sea-Infe@ts Cells magnified, as they were found "* rae 
adhering to the fame Fucus, with the arched Cells of the fe- 
cond Efchara, or foliaceous Millepora ; only the Matter, Of ecitest shin 
Tye which ~~” 
