162 HISTORY OF BRITISH ZOOPHYTES. 



not seem to move in a solid body, but to be divided into 

 minute globules^ which permeated a cellular structure/' — 

 Br. Fleminff. 



4. Laomedea obliqua, W. IF, Saunders. (Plate XI. 

 fig. 34.) 



Hab. Parasitical on seaweeds ; Brighton. 



This pretty little zoophyte was sent to me by Mr. Pike, 

 College Gardens, Brighton. He sent me some alga?, which 

 he has the art of preparing in a peculiar manner, by which 

 the very finest kinds are made ready for the herbarium 

 unattached to pa])er, so that when held up betwixt the eye 

 and the light, they look like a beautiful filmy skeleton. It 

 was not for tliis species in particular he sent the alga3, and 

 he had not mentioned it. Observing a very delicate fringe 

 on the margin of R. palmetta, I applied my Codington lens 

 to it, and was dehghted to sec, in its close array of elegant 

 oblique cells, what at once reminded me of Dr. Johnston's, 

 or rather Mrs. .lohnston's, excellent figure of Laornedea 

 obliqua. It was first observed at Brighton by ^Ir. Saunders, 

 and it seems not uncommon there. Unless a person be on 

 the outlook for the " minims of nature," it is apt to escape 

 notice, for the little stems which bear the cells are often 

 less than half an inch in height, and the whole polypidora, 



