156 HISTORY OF BRITISH ZOOPHYTES. 



home as a present to his wife, and she being a person of 

 similar taste, admired it as much as her husband had done. 

 With all due care, therefore, she planted it in an old tea- 

 pot filled with earth, and watering it with fresh-water every 

 morning, she had the satisfaction of thinking that it grew 

 a little larger under her judicious management ! AYhat 

 would have been her dehght had she foreseen that her sea- 

 born, earth-nourished favourite, was to flourish for a£jes in 

 Dr. Johnston^s well-known ' History of British Zoophytes !^ 



But it was not long without a rival. I soon got another 

 Arran specimen with vesicles, and Major Martin got three; 

 and in the summer of 1851, after a delightful day's dredg- 

 ing off Largs, with Dr. Greville and Mr. James Cunning- 

 hame, of Edinburgh, the latter gentleman showed us a 

 magnificent specimen of P. mynophjllum rich with vesicles, 

 which a few days before he had dredged off Cumbrae ; and 

 it is worth observing, that in this as well as in every other 

 specimen obtained in the west of Scotland, the pinnae, in- 

 stead of inclining to one side, lay fiat, diverging equally 

 from each side of the stem. 



8. Plumularia frutescens. Shrubby Coralline, Ellis. 

 (Plate IX. fig. 29.) 



Hab. Scarborough, Ellis; at Scarborough, also, Mr. 



