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T. Milletiana, found in both the crags. Dr. Johnston re- 

 marks, that " this fact assumes great interest as an additional 

 illustration of the permanency of species in general. It is 

 long since the ''coralline crag^ was deposited,, long enough, 

 methinks, for any good law to develope its effects in its 

 subjects, and yet this very old TurhinoUa has not obeyed 

 the ' law of development/ but has steadily maintained, amid 

 the changes around it of very many centuries, its original 

 features, and form, and size, alike careless of human theo- 

 rems, and insensible to the agency of its innate appetencies 

 and higher aspirations !" 



Genus XXVI. CARYOPHYLLEA, Lamarck. 



Gen. Cliar. Animal like the Actinia. Polypidom permanently 

 fixed, simple, striated externally in a longitudinal direction, the 

 top hollowed into a lamellated stellular cup. — Lr. JoJmston. 



I. Caryophyllea Smithii, Lr. Fleming. 



Hab. Zetland, Dr. Tleming; Devon, Mr. Smith; Corn- 

 wall, Mr. Couch ; Youghall, Miss Bali ; Donegal, R. Ball ; 

 Connemara, M'Calla; Oban, Mr. Alder. 



The only specimens we have of this interesting little 

 zoophyte are from Miss Cutler, whose researches and dis- 

 coveries in the south of England are well known. 



