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the pencil of ]\Irs. Johnston I had been in the habit 

 of admiring, in her husband's admirable '' History of 

 British Zoophytes." 



It was on the 3rd of October that I detached, at 

 that sort of little natm-al pier that I have described 

 under the Nothe cliffs, a frond of Fucus serratus, with 

 a bushy tuft of Rhodomela suhfusca growing parasi- 

 tically on it. To one of the branchlets of the latter 

 plant a little mass of jelly was adhering, which, on 

 my dropping the branch into a phial of water, pre- 

 sently expanded, and I had the pleasure of seeing the 

 bell-like form of Liicernaria auricula. It was a very 

 young specimen, not much more than one-eighth of 

 an inch in height ; but I had got a clue to the search, 

 and I subsequently obtained, through the month of 

 October, many more. In spite of the gales and seas, 

 I managed to drag up a good deal of the Fucus^ 

 which is hereabout profusely fringed with Rhodomela, 

 and also with CeramiuTn rub rum ; and on these, as 

 also occasionally on the Fucus itself, and once or 

 twice on Padina, I found the Lucernarige. 



My mode of examination was as follows. Collecting 

 a basketful of the tufts at random, I brought them 

 home ; then one by one I waved them to and fro, in 

 the tank of water, between my eye and the light, 

 whereby the animals became distinctly discernible, 

 and were easily detached. Sometimes four or five 

 were scattered over one tuft of the parasitic plant, 

 and it was rare to find a Rhodomela of any size, 

 without one at least. 



The specimens were evidently the young of the 

 season ; many were no larger than I have named ; but 



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