EUDENDEIUM. Ill 



" Other specimens have occurred of similar aspect and 

 conformation, chiefly from four to six inches high, but none 

 above nine. One beautiful and luxuriant specimen, four 

 inches high, and diverging four inches, might have been 

 circumscribed by an elHpse two inches and a quarter across. 

 By gross computation, 1200 hydrse, deeper-coloured than 

 peach-blossom, decorated this latter specimen. The head 

 or hydra of this zoophyte is deciduous '^.■^ 



" Full many a gem of pm'est ray serene 

 The dark unfathom'd depths of ocean bear ; 

 Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, 

 And waste its sweetness on the desert air," 



" Thy way is in the sea, and Thy paths in the great waters, and Thy foot- 

 steps are not known." 



2. EUDENDRIUM RAMOSUM, ElUs. 



Hab. Shores of Kent and Sussex, Ellis; Devon, Mrs. 

 Griffiths ; Cornwall, Mr. Couch ; Scarborough, Mr. Bean ; 

 Hastings, Mr. Tumanowicz; West of Ireland, Mr. W. 

 Thompson ; near Kirkcudbright, Mr. E. B. Fleming ; coast 

 of A}Tshire, D. L. 



It is from two to six inches in height, the branches slender, 



* ' Rare and Remarkable Animals of Scotland,' by Sir John Graham 

 Dalyell, Baronet. 



