of Corats, re. 
; uniting of the Bodies, exhibited ‘Bud a’ very \confufed. Ap- 
- When they were firft drawn up near the Surface of the 
a Water, the Animals were’ expanded; and looked, as the 
Captain obferved, like a Nofegay of bright yellow farcry 
Flowers (See Fig..4).. mie aes bat 
Hach diftiné& Polype has eight Zentacula, Claws, or Arms; 
each Arm is furnifhed on both Sides with Rows of Fibres, 
that feem to do the Office of Fingers. In the Centre of the 
Arms, where they unite, is the Mouth, which is furnifhed: 
with two ereét indented of {colloped Lips. ; dé 
Upon difleaing, one of thefe Bodies length-ways, Fig. Cs | 
I found many fmall Seed-like Particles, in the cellular Cavi- 
ties of a ftrong wrinkled Mufcle, which compofed the whole . 
ji Length of the Infide. Thefe were of the Sizeiof thofe re- 
_ prefented at Fig. 7; and, upon being magnified, they ap- — 
_ peared of a comprefied orbicular Shape, as at ‘Fig. 2; and 
may poflibly be the Spawn of the Animal) > 
ee "From the lower Part lV (See Fig. B), the indented muf- at, 
cular Bafe, where the Polypes all unite, proceeds a hellow 
- -Bladder-like Membrane, Fig. M, which is kept extended 
“for about two. or three Inches, by the flender, arched, and 
_ twifted Top of the bony Stem, which is likewife inferted in 
the Middle of the fame indented mufcular Bale. 
This Bladder feems calculated, as well to raife or fink 
the Animal at pleafure in the Sea, like the {wimming Blad- 
ders of Fifhés, as to convey by. this Chanel the neceflary 
Materials, which the feveral different Bodies colleé& for the 
fee Support and Increafe of the long bony Stem, a Part that 
Sage! mR 0. 
nog feems 
