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ones very long, the inner short : it either swims like ;i 

 Medusa or adheres in deep water. ''^ The tentacles of the 

 outer row are very worm-like and long, like those of An- 

 thea and Cereus, and probably enable the animal to swim 

 through the water. 



Edwardsia vestita. — (Plate lY.) 



In a communication made in 1841 by the late lamented 

 Professor Porbes, and published in the ' Annals and Maga- 

 zine of Natural History/ an account is given of two inter- 

 esting marine animals found in the ^Egean Sea. 



One is the animal now before us, and the other, a curious 

 Annelide. "The depth of the bay,^^ says the Professor, 

 " is generally from seven to ten fathoms, the bottom sand 

 and seaweed, chiefly Zostera. At the entrance of the bay 

 there is deeper water, from seventeen to thirty fathoms, with 

 a bottom of Corallines. The animals different according to 

 the bottom and depth. . . . There are also a number of 

 sandy bights, which, in places where streams run in, are 

 crowded with Cerinthia; in others, are inhabited by great 

 numbers of Testacea and Foraminifera. In these sandy 

 nooks live two animals, the one an Annelide, the other a 

 Polype, so remarkable on account of the peculiarities of form 



