2 VIGNETTES FROM INVISIBLE LIFE. 



remarkable, and hardly known to any but scientific 

 men. More than 200 years have passed since the 

 subject of our sketch was first discovered, yet very 

 few people have heard anything about it, and fewer 

 have ever seen it. The original observers of it and 



FIG. 1. Epistylis grandis. 



its fellows, at first much puzzled, named them bell- 

 flower animals ; and in truth this sketch represents 

 an animal-tree. It seems rather an impossible sort 

 of name. The words " animal " and " vegetable " 

 indicate the two great natural kingdoms into which 

 all life on this globe is divided. Yet here is a 

 name combining the two ideas in one object ; but 

 then that is what the object itself does. 



