ANALYTICAL INDEX. 



313 



CHAPTER IX.— continued. 



Nascent hydra single, 



Doris Hombergii prey of the Lobularia, 



Plate XLII. figs. 1-5, explained, 



180 



ib. 



181 



§ 2. VlEGULARIA, 



Never properly represented, 



Commonly obtained in fragments, 



Specimen of extraordinary dimensions, 



Natural position questionable, 



Flesh invests a bone, 



Bone extends 900 diameters, 



Use unknown, 



Analysis, .... 



Dr (Professor) Fyffe, an eminent chemist, 



Dr Boswell Reid, an eminent chemist, 



Faculties of the Virgularia, 



Composed of a million of parts, 



Each is under control, 



A nocturnal animal, 



Regenerated parts, 



Emits a musky odour, 



Perpetuation, 



Yellow corpuscula become planulee, 



Nascent Virgularia, 



Bone free of the flesh, 



Dwelling circumscribed, 



Plate XLIII. explained, 



ib. 



ib. 



182 



ib. 



183 



ib. 



184 



ib. 



185 



ib. 



ib. 



ib. 



186 



ib. 



ib. 



ib. 



187 



ib. 



188 



ib. 



189 



ib. 



190 



§ 3. Pennatdla Phosphoeea, 

 Name derived from aspect, 

 Central bone, 



Dimensions depend on absorption, 

 Hydra, 

 Surface, 



Bone shifts within, 

 Dwells near mud, 

 Yellow corpuscula, 

 Survive amidst putrescence, 

 Change their shape, 

 Pennatula nocturnal, 

 Plate XLIV. explained, 



ib. 

 ib. 

 191 

 ib. 

 ib. 

 ib. 

 192 

 193 

 ib. 

 ib. 

 ib. 

 194 

 ib. 



VOL. II. 



2 R 



