iB 
SQUIRTS, POLYPS, AND JELLY-FISHES. 
Some of the pleasant minutes whiled away in the 
water can be advantageously put to collecting, and 
the bather who loiters among the grass-grown piles 
that here and there lift their hoary heads out of the 
water, or examines the wreck of some unfortunate 
merchantman, cannot fail to meet with a number 
of curious and interesting objects, which otherwise 
might have readily passed among the unknowables 
of the sea-border. One or more forms of sea- 
urchins or ‘sea-eggs,’ various squirts, polyps, and 
corallines, and the goose barnacle, find here a con- 
genial home, which already in olden time had 
been discovered and made useful by the edible 
muscle. Unfortunately, almost the entire New 
Jersey coast is destitute of real rock, and conse- 
quently lacks those cool rock-bound retreats which 
on the New England shores delight the star-fish and 
the sea-anemone. This deficiency is in a measure 
made good by the enclosed areas of piers and 
wharves, which offer a safe harbor to a number of 
forms which, in the matter of home comforts, could 
obtain but little encouragement from the arid sands. 
Among these, perhaps the first to attract our 
attention will beasmall rounded yellowish body, not 
much more than a half-inch across, which is found 
b4 
