192 HISTORY OF BRITISH ZOOPHYTES. 



11. ANTHOZOA ASTEROIDA. 



" There is a magic-like attraction in 

 Thy waves ; thou hast iu thee the life — 

 The eternal, graceful, and majestic life 

 Of Nature, and the natural heart 

 Is therefore bouud to thee ANnth holy love." 



" Old Oceau was, 

 Infinity of ages ere we breathed 

 Existence. — And he will be beautiful 

 "When all the living world that sees him now 

 Shall roll unconscious dust around the Sun. 

 Swelling, from age to age, the vital throb 

 In human hearts, Death shall not subjugate 

 The pulse that swells in his stupendous breast, 

 Or interdict his minstrelsy to sound. 

 In thundering concert with the quiring winds ; 

 But long as man to parent Nature owns 

 Instinctive homage, and in times beyond 

 The power of thought to reach, bard after bard 

 Shall sing thy glory, beatific Sea." — CainpheJl. 



The following is Dr. Jolinston^s arrangement of the families 

 and genera of Antliozoa asteroid a : — 



Family I. Poh^De-mass free, pennated, carnous ; the skin 

 spiculiferous ; the axis bony, simple, continuous ; po- 

 lypes arranged along the margin of the i)innae. Pen- 



NATULID^. 



