272 Dr. Johnston's Catalogue of Zoophytes.
doubly pinnate ; joints somewhat compressed, longer than their diameter, enlarged upwards ; the short lateral shoots clindrical, with longer joints, the ultimate pointed or capitate. Officinal Coralline.
C. officinalis, Linn. ; Soland. Zooph. 118, t. 23, f. 14, 15; Turt. Lin. iv. 671; Turt. Brit. Faun. 211; Stew. Elem. ii. 439 ; Lam. Hist. Nat. ii. 328 ; Lamour. Corall. 127; Bosc, Vers, iii. 77, t. 28, f. 2, a bad copy of Ellis's; Flem. Brit. Anim. 514; Hogg's Stockton, 38; Loud. Journ. 1, 278, f. 148, d; Stark, Elem. ii. 426, t. viii. f. 4, a copy of Ellis's; Grant, in Edin. Phil. Journ. xiv. 183.
Coralline anglica, Ger. Herb. 1572, cum fig.; Raii Syn. 33, No. 1.
Muscus corallinus albus et purpureus, Sib. Scot. ii. lib. quart. 55.
Coralline of the shops, Ellis, Corall. 48, t. xxiv. No. 2, a.
Hab. On rocks in pools left by the recess of the tide, most abundant.
From one to four inches high, of a dull purplish colour when recent, but becoming very white when left to bleach on the shore. Many modern naturalists of eminence are of opinion that the Corallinae belong to the vegetable kingdom (as BASTER always maintained in opposition to ELLIS), an opinion which has been much strengthened by the observations of Professor SCHWEIGGER of Konigsberg. — See the Edin. New Phil. Journal, vol. i. p. 220. I have made many experiments on our species both when recent, and after being macerated in weak acids, but I could never detect the slightest vestige of any animal or polype.
