. On the Nature of the Gorgonia; That It is a Real Marine Animal, and Not of a Mixed Nature, between Animal and Vegetable. By John Ellis, Esq. F. R. S. in a Letter to Daniel Solander, M. D. F. R. S. . ar feries of hollow fibresor little tubes, in what is called the wood, either longi-tudinal or horizontal. It appears compofed of a fort ofirregular lamina, like horn; the fibres of which take nocertain direction, nor preferve in any two jplaces the famethicknefs. It has no feries of xitricular veffels, as thetranfverfe veflels of wood are called by malpighi ; or in-fertions as they are called by
. On the Nature of the Gorgonia; That It is a Real Marine Animal, and Not of a Mixed Nature, between Animal and Vegetable. By John Ellis, Esq. F. R. S. in a Letter to Daniel Solander, M. D. F. R. S. . ar feries of hollow fibresor little tubes, in what is called the wood, either longi-tudinal or horizontal. It appears compofed of a fort ofirregular lamina, like horn; the fibres of which take nocertain direction, nor preferve in any two jplaces the famethicknefs. It has no feries of xitricular veffels, as thetranfverfe veflels of wood are called by malpighi ; or in-fertions as they are called by Dr. grew. Thefe are eflen-tially neceffary, as forming a communication from thebark and the internal parts of the wood quite the contrary, the concentric circles of the gorgoniahave no connexion with each other; they run like fomany parallel curves, and are connedted by no infertionsor utricular veflTels; but to all have been appearance formedby feparate depofitions of concreting matter. So the ftiellsof fnails and oyfters are formed; their refpe<Stive animalsthrow out periodically the ojeous juice or tejlaceous mat-ter, which adheres to the former (liell and concretes, and thusphiltrans06155565. 9
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