156 HISTORY OF BRITISH ZOOPHYTES. 
home as a present to his wife, and she being a person of 
similar taste, admired it as much as her husband had done. 
With all due care, therefore, she planted it in an old tea- 
pot filled with earth, and watering it with fresh-water every 
morning, she had the satisfaction of thinking that it grew 
a little larger under her judicious management! What 
would have been her delight had she foreseen that her sea- 
born, earth-nourished favourite, was to flourish for ages in 
Dr. Johnston’s well-known ‘ History of British Zoophytes ? 
But it was not long without a rival. I soon got another 
Arran specimen with vesicles, and Major Martin got three ; 
and in the summer of 1851, after a delightful day’s dredg- 
ing off Largs, with Dr. Greville and Mr. James Cunning- 
hame, of Edinburgh, the latter gentleman showed us a 
magnificent specimen of P. myriophyllum rich with vesicles, 
which a few days before he had dredged off Cumbrae; and 
it is worth observing, that in this as well as in every other 
specimen obtained in the west of Scotland, the pinne, in- 
stead of inclining to one side, lay flat, diverging equally 
from each side of the stem. 
8. Prumubarta FRuTESCENS, Shrubby Coralline, H/is. 
(Plate IX. fig. 29.) 
Hab. Scarborough, Ellis; at Scarborough, also, Mr. 
