186 



Z. ASTEROIDA. 



Isis, 



Drayton, in the Poly-olbion, mentions the Isis as a product of 

 Portland isle, but his Isis is probably the Corallina officinalis. I glad- 

 ly quote the lines : 



" Upon whose moisted skirt, with sea-weed fring'd about. 

 The bastard coral breeds, that, drawn out of the brack, 

 A brittle stalk becomes, from greenish tum'd to black ; 

 Which th' ancients for the love that they to Isis bare 

 (Their goddess most ador'd) have sacred for her hair. 

 Of which the Naiads and the blue Nereids make 

 Them taudries for their necks : when sporting in the lake, 

 They to their secret bowers the sea-gods entertain." 



Song 2. 



The Isis Entrochus of Turt. Brit. Faun. 206, is a fossil species 

 of Pentacrinus. 



Fig. 26. 



OrA OF THE GORGONIA. 



