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Dr. Johnston frequently finds it on branches of trees that 
have been carried by floods into the sea. 
It rises to the height of a foot, and even two feet. The 
stem is filiform, zigzag, giving off a short branch irom 
every bend. The cells are bell-shaped, on ringed pedicles, 
which are about three times the length of the cells. The 
short-stalked vesicles are axillary and pear-shaped. ‘The 
polypes are reddish. 
It is truly edifying to observe, that He who made all the 
inhabitants of the world, extends his kind care to even the 
minutest of them, whether in the air, or on the earth, or 
in the sea. He has consulted the safety and comfort of 
this thread-like zoophyte; and it is pleasant to see Ellis 
observing this —“ This coralline is found in great abund- 
ance on the south-west coast of England, and seems most 
curiously contrived, from its structure, to resist the violence 
of the waves, all its joints being furnished with springs. 
Its vesicles also are formed so as to yield easily to every 
violent impulse of the water without injury, from their 
being placed on footstalks formed like screws.” 
‘It is not common on that part of the Ayrshire coast with 
which I am best acquainted; but I have fine specimens from 
Mrs. Griffiths, Mrs. Gulson, Miss Cutler, and Mr. Tudor. 
