MONOGRAPH 



OF THE GENUS 



PLACUNANOMIA 



' Each creature holds an insular point in space : 

 Yet what man stirs a fing»',r, breathes a sound, 

 But all the multitudinoas beings round 

 In all the countless worlds, with time and place 

 for their conditions, down to the central base, 

 Thrill, haply, in vibration and rebound. 

 Life answering life across the vast profound. 

 In full autiphony, by a common grace!" 



Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 



