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the romantic Kyles of Bute, aboard the yacht of Mr. Smith 
of Jordanhills, when dredging along with him and Professor 
Edward Forbes. A dozen precious years have passed since 
that delightful excursion. 
2. TuspunartA Dumortieri, Dr. Johnston. 
Hab. On the shell of the Zithodes maja, from Berwick Bay. 
“This is so like 7. indivisa, that one might conjecture 
it was that species in miniature, but there can be no doubt 
of its distinctness.” To be convinced of the truth of this, 
we have only to look at Dr. Johnston’s fine figure of it, 
plate vi. 1, 2. 
3. TUBULARIA LARYNX. (Plate II. fig. 4.) 
Hab. Strangford Lough, W. Thompson; Belfast Lough, 
Mr. Paterson and Mr. Hyndman. 
“This coralline is found in great plenty in the sea, near 
the opening of the Thames, adhering to other marine bodies, 
and often to the bottoms of ships. I have received it with 
the animals alive in sea-water, in which state it affords a 
most agreeable scene; the top of each tube bearing a bright 
erimson-coloured polype, equal in richness of colour to the 
Guernsey lily, all the animals displaying their claws or 
tentacula at the same time, with surprising agility.”— His. 
It takes its specific name from the rings on parts of the 
