Illustrations of British Zoology, 



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Art. VI. Illustrations in British Zoology. By George John- 

 ston, M.D., Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edin- 

 burgh. 



6. CORYNE GLANDULOSA. (^g. 110.) 



CI. Polypi, Ord. Denudati, Gen. Coryne. 

 This pretty zoophyte occurs abundantly in Berwick Bay, 

 where it grows upon the sides of stones that are covered with 

 a thin coating of fine mud, and lie in shallow pools near high- 



a. Natural size. 



b. Magnified. 



water mark. It is here invariably accompanied with another 

 member of the same class, the Campanularia gelatinosa of 

 Dr. Fleming; but both of them, although interesting, and 

 even beautiful, under the microscope, are naturally so diminu- 

 tive, and so unattractive in appearance, that, like the flower of 

 the desert, they might seem " born to blush unseen," were it 

 not that the curious naturalist loves to search out, and to 

 display to others, the designs in which Infinite Wisdom has 

 moulded his animate creation. 



Coryne glandulosa is attached to its station by slender 



tubular fibres, that creep along the stone, and bind the whole 



little colony together. The upright shoots are something 



less than an inch in height, and irregularly branched, each 



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