366 HISTORY OF BRITISH ZOOPHYTES. 



1. Cycloum PAPILLOSUM, IlassalL 



HabT Parasitical on Fucus serratus. 



This zoophyte, as well as the succeeding species, exhibits 

 in a very remarkable degree the close adhesion to life, the 

 usual accoinpanimont of a low organization, for after being 

 coated over with ice, should they be immersed in sea-water 

 the polypes will protrude tlieir feelers and appear as active 

 as if they had never been subjected to any such treatment. 



Genus XXII. SAECOCHITUM, Eassall. 



Gen. Char. Polypidom cncrustiDg, fleshy, covered with nu- 

 merous prominences of irregular form and unequal size, from 

 which the polj^oes issue ; ova circular, scattered ; a dark-brown 

 body of a circular form, filled with small round granules, is ap- 

 parent in great numbers through the polypidom. 



I. Sarcochitum polyoum, IlassalL 

 Hab. Parasitical on Fucus serratus. 



Tribe 4. VESICULARINA. 



" God, who gifted his creature man with an inquiring spirit, and with an 

 appetite for knowledge of the works of creation, — to furnish him with objects 

 of inquiry, and to gratify that appetite to the utmost, not only ornamented 

 the dry land with what was fair to look upon, — not only placed before his 

 eyes on the earth an innumerable host of creatures, of which he could gain 



