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Of the Aleyonitum: 
“NHLIS Clafs of marine Bodies is, by Mr. Ray, placed 
__ after the Sponges, and is called:a kind of Plants grow- 
ing in- Water, formed, like Fuagus’s of various Figures, and 
with different Sorts. of Covering,; fome having a gritty, and _ 
{ome a callous Skin, with a {pongy. Subftance in the Infide. 
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Other Species ate of 4 Belay Supt ance oe cud on 
Cefalpinus was -of Opinion, that this Claf of Bodies was 
compofed of the Froth of the Sea, differently modified, and 
of different Colours, and grew to Rocks in the Manner of 
Sponges, a | | 
At prefent, we fhall eonfider it as confifting of fuch ma- 
rine Subftances (chiefly the Nefts and Matrices of Sea Ani- 
mals) as are not reducible to any other Clafs. 
Platexvit. N°. 1. Alcyoniuim pulmonis inftar lobatum. 
M82 An Pulino marinus alter Rondeletii 132? R. S, p. 3x. 
Ne 3. : dissitnceatta it tae 
| Sea Fig. ; 
This Sea-produétion is of a dark Olive-colour, of a flefhy 
Subftance, and {mells very difagreeably when it is opened ; 
the Infideis full of little oblong yellow Particles, from whence 
it borrows the Name of the Sea Fig among the Fifhermen, 
from whom it was procured, with many other Things of the 
like kind, at hizeffable. As foon as I received it I put it 
into Spirits, in order that I might examine it more minutely, 
being thus kept from fhrinking. ‘ 
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