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the erroneous notion, much more intelligible when one has seen 
a specimen, that he had discovered in Umbellularia the living 
representative of the “lily encrinite.” The two specimens de- 
scribed by Mylius and Ellis were lost, and for a century the 
animal was never seen. A year ago two specimens were taken 
in deep water during the expedition of the Swedish frigates 
LIngegerd and Gladan to the Northern Ocean, and will shortly 
be described by M. Lindahl, the naturalist who accompanied 
the expedition.* 
When taken from the trawl, the polyps and the membrane 
covering the hard axis of the stem were so brightly phosphor- 
escent, that Captain Maclear found it easy to determine the 
character of the light by the spectroscope. It gave a very re- 
stricted spectrum sharply included between the lines } and p. 
On Monday, the 3d of February, we dredged off the De- 
sertas, and in the afternoon put down the trawl. The bottom, 
however, proved to be too rocky, and the trawl fouled and was 
lost—to our great regret, for it was well made and well bal- 
anced, and had been successful in every cast, even to the great- 
est depths. 
Next morning we anchored in the roadstead of Funchal. 
We spent two days only at Madeira, and we can, of course, 
add nothing to the many excellent descriptions which have 
been given of the island. We, apparently in common with all 
others, were struck with its exceeding beauty, and particularly 
with the wonderful profusion of flowers. Patches of glorious 
color were visible from the ship even at this early season; and 
these, when looked at more closely, resolved themselves into as- 
tonishing festoons and garlands of flowering creepers, hanging 
across the streets, and clothing and mantling over every wall 
and trellis. 
* M. Lindahl’s memoir, ‘Om Pennatulid-slagtet Umbellula,” was read before the 
Royal Swedish Academy in February, 1874, and is now published (February, 1875). 
