Ceramiea.'] weangelia. 189 



Ayrshire coast. A glance at our figure and at Phyc. Brit. 

 Plate XXI. ^ will lead you to say^ "it is a lovely plant." 



Genus XXXVIII. WEANGELIA, /. A^ardA. 



Gen. Char. Prond purplish or rosy-red, filamentous, jointed ; 

 filaments single-tubed. Pructification of two kinds : 1, tetra- 



garding it with surprise, they said, they did not think ]there was anything so 

 bonnie to be got in the bay. Another Arran fisherman, however, having 

 brought up from the deep a fine specimen of Plumzdaria myriophylhcm, 

 Pheasant's-tail Coralline, took it home as a curiosity to his wife ; and she 

 being no less tasteful than her husband, planted it in earth in an old teapot, 

 and, carefully watering it each day wath fresh water, had the satisfaction of 

 imagining that it grew a little under her fostering care. Be that as it may, 

 it came unwithered into my possession, and its vesicles are embalmed in my 

 friend Dr. Johnston's excellent ' History of British Zoophytes,' as being the 

 first vesicles of this species that had ever been observed. 



I am sorry that the scallops which yielded such rich crops of sea-weeds 

 and zoophytes, have disappeared from the bay. The fishermen finding that 

 they made excellent bait, had, in their greed, I suppose, exhausted the bed. 

 There are difi'erent ways, however, of accounting for their disappearance. 

 " Is Donald getting any clams (scallops) this year ? " said I to a fisherman's 

 wife. " Na, Na," answered she, " the clams and the fish have a' left our 

 shore. Some bad men shot their nets on sabbath morning, and the fish and 

 clams have a' forsaken the coast; and nae wonder," added she. " Nae 

 wonder," responded I, " nae wonder 1 " — Excursions to the Island of Arran, 

 by D. L. (Johnstone and Hunter, Paternoster-row, London.) 



