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figured in Dr. Johnston’s excellent work, in plate v. 1, 2, 
and also at p. 407. It seems to have been a special fa- 
vourite of the late Sir J. G. Dalyell, and he gives splendid 
figures of it in his great work, in plate vi. and plate vii. 
It is a pleasure, also, to quote part of his enthusiastic de- 
scription. “This is a splendid animal production,—one of 
the most singular, beautiful, and interesting among the 
boundless works of Nature. Sometimes it resembles an 
aged tree, blighted amidst the war of the elements, or 
withered by the deep corrosions of time: sometimes it re- 
sembles a vigorous flowering shrub in miniature, rising with 
a dark brown stem, and diverging into numerous boughs, 
branches, and twigs, terminating in so many hydre, wherein 
red and yellow intermixed afford a fine contrast to the 
whole.” 
“The glowing colours of the one, and the venerable 
aspect of the other,—their intricate parts often laden with 
prolific fruit, and their numberless tenants, all highly pic- 
turesque, are equally calculated to attract our admiration to 
the creative power displayed throughout the universe; and 
to sanction the character of this product, as one of uncom- 
mon interest and beauty. 
“A very fine specimen of the Zudularia ramea (Euden- 
