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I. MILLEPOEINA. 



" Now it is pleasant, on a summer eve, 

 When a broad shore retiring waters leave. 

 Awhile to wait upon the firm fair sand. 

 When all is calm at sea, and still on land, 

 And there the ocean's produce to explore. 

 As floating by, or roUing on the shore, 

 Those living jellies, which the flesh inflame, 

 Tierce as a nettle, and from that its name ; 

 Some in huge masses, some that you may bring 

 In the small compass of a lady's ring. 

 Figured by hand Divine. There 's not a gem 

 Wrought by man's art can be compared with them ; 

 Soft, brilliant, tender, through the wave they glow. 

 And make the moonbeam brighter where they flow." — Crabbe. 



Genus XXIII. POCILLIPOEA, Lamarck. 



Gen. Char. Polypidom calcareous, fixed, plant-like, branched 

 or lobed ; cells scattered over the whole surface, distinct, sunk 

 in little fosses, obscurely stellate, the lamellae narrow, and almost 

 obsolete. — Johnston. 



1. PociLLiPORA INTERSTINCTA, JDr.^Hihbert. 



Hab. Zetland. 



" Cylindrical, with distant immersed stars." [Hibbert,] 



