This Millepore grows in very irregular maffes, but always
preferves the fame habit of growing; that is, the
branches are flat, narrow, and regularly fubdivided :
they coalefce, twift, and branch out again, leaving certain
hollow fpaces between them ; their cells are much
fmaller, though of the fame fhape with the cells in the
foliaceous Millepore. This Coral was brought from the
Mediterranean Sea, and grows in large maffes of fix inches
diameter.
There is a kind, fomething like this, found on the
coaft of Cornwall; but the branches are not fo flat, and
the cells have more elevated openings, liker to the following
fpecies. See Borlafe Hill. Cornwall, tab. 24.
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8. Millepora cervicornis.
Millepora fubcompreffa
. dichotoma utrinque celli-
fera^ of cults tubulofis pro-
minulis.
Stag s-Horn Millepore.
This Millepore is a little
compreffed, and dichotomous;
it has cells on both fides, with
tubular openings that proiedt a
little.
Marfigli Hill, de la Mer, tab. 32. fig. 152.
This Millepore exadtly agrees with Marfigli’s defcrip-
tion and magnified figure, and likewife in the appearance
of its furface ; for it looks as if it was covered with var-
nifh, by the time it is become from red to a yellowifh
brown. Its branches are very like a flag’s horn, and it
is probably what Jmperatus calls Porus Cervinus, and not
the M. taenialis, which I had formerly taken it for; it is
very brittle, and much narrower than the Tape Millepore,
but not fo flat. I have obferved fome of the pores divided
at the bafe, but they are not generally fo, which
makes
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makes me doubt its being the Millepora afpera of Linnaeus.
It grows to five or fix inches high, and is found
in the Mediterranean Sea.
Skene's Millepore.
This Millepore is much
compreffed, and beginning to
divide into branches, with cells,
on both fides, difpofed in regular
rows: the cells are placed
alternately, each has a helmet-
fhaped cover over its round
gaping mouth; the under lip
is furnifhed with one little
tooth.
9. Millepora Skenei.
Millepora plano-com-
preffa fubramofa utrinque
cdlifera : cellulis feriatis
alternis turbinatis ga-
leatis fauce hiante, la-
bio inferioridenticulouni-
co prcedita.
I received a final! fpecimen of this Coral from my late
ingenious and learned friend Dr. David Skene, of Aberdeen.
It is of a bright Alining white color,, as: if covered
over with a filver varnifh. It appears to be the beginning
of an elegant kind of Millepore, and was found adhering
to a rock in the fea near Aberdeen. It differs much from
the Millepora pumicofa, which grows in irregular maffes
with a much fmaller opening to its mouth.
[3 ] . M illepores: t h a t are composed of C lus t er s op
c e l lu l ar P ores irregularl y a r r ang ed ..
10. Millepora pumicofa.
Millepora multiformis
fragilis fcaberrima, e cel-
Pumice Millepore..
This Millepore appears in
many forms; it is brittle, very
lulls