. Scripture natural history: containing a description of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, amphibia, fishes, insects, molluscous animals, corals, plants, trees, precious stones, and metals, mentioned in the Holy Scriptures . nered is well known, and much used for ornamental pur-poses. It is the coral of commerce. Coral of everykind is the production of myriads of little animals of the polypus kind, forwhich it answers thesame purpose as the shellof the oyster. It is fixedto the bottom of the sea,and to the surfaces ofsunken rocks; and somekinds increase in time toimmense masses, formingthe foundati
. Scripture natural history: containing a description of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, amphibia, fishes, insects, molluscous animals, corals, plants, trees, precious stones, and metals, mentioned in the Holy Scriptures . nered is well known, and much used for ornamental pur-poses. It is the coral of commerce. Coral of everykind is the production of myriads of little animals of the polypus kind, forwhich it answers thesame purpose as the shellof the oyster. It is fixedto the bottom of the sea,and to the surfaces ofsunken rocks; and somekinds increase in time toimmense masses, formingthe foundation of manyislands in the Pacific andIndian Oceans, and ex-tending round them likereefs of rocks. Coral as-sumes various shapes;some kinds resemble thestem and branches of atree; others, as the braincoral, are large irregularmasses, with cells, pits,and meandering elevations, on their surface. Othersare indefinite in figure, and spread in layers. In thered coral, the surface of the calcareous stem andbranches is smooth; but in the extensive group term-ed madrepores, whether branched, convex, or spread-ing, the surface presents innumerable cells, each con-taining a distinct individual, called a polypus, or polype,. Coral of Commerce, with the ends of the branches are representedas stripped of their living envelopes. CORAL. 169 with its mouth and tentacles, which latter it extends inquest of food. These polypes, though acting each forthemselves, constitute a compound whole, being vital-ly united to each other, by means of a living gelatinousexpansion which covers the calcareous coral, as with
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