CHAPTER XT. 



NOVEMBKR. 



During tlie fag end of last month I observed 

 some fragments of a new creature among some bits 

 of Anacharis, from the Vale of Heath Pond, and 

 searched for complete and intelligible specimens 

 without eff(^.ct. Luckily one evening a scientific 

 neighbour, to whom I had given some of the plant 

 for the sake of the beautiful Stephonoren' which 

 inhabited it, came in with a glass trough containing 

 a little branch, to which adhered a dirty parchment- 

 like ramifying tube, dotted here and there with 

 brown oval masses, and having sundry open extrem- 

 ities, from which some polyp-shaped animals put 

 forth long pearly tentacles margined with vibrating 

 cilia, and making a lively current. The creatures 

 presented an organization higher than that of polyps, 

 for there was an evident differentiation and com- 

 plication of parts. They, therefore, belonged to the 

 Polyzoa^ or Bryozoa^^ a very important division 



* Pulyzoa means "many animals," in allusion to their habit of 

 living in association. Bryozoa, "moss-animals," from some having 

 that appearance. 



