The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Fungia Coral [ARK00059]
Attached People: Collector (major) - Bargrave, John (1610-1680)Location(s): Current location at - Canterbury Cathedral Library and Archives (Library and/or Archive) -> Canterbury Cathedral (Institution)
Annotation:[Canterbury Catalog: Fungia Coral, commonly known as "Stone Mushroom". Reported by Bargrave to have been procured from an Armenian in Venice who reputedly had very many "of several sorts of colours and bigness, and divers other stones of pretty forms and figures". Fungiidae is a family of Cnidaria that includes the mushroom corals (sometimes known as disc corals, solitary corals or plate corals). Generally solitary marine animals that are capable of benthic locomotion (movement across the sedimentary surface of the bottom of the ocean floor). These corals often appear to be bleached or dead.] (undated)