192 HISTORY OF BRITISH ZOOPHYTES. 
II. ANTHOZOA ASTEROIDA. 
‘There is a magic-like attraction in 
Thy waves ; thou hast in thee the life— 
The eternal, graceful, and majestic life 
Of Nature, and the natural heart 
Is therefore bound to thee with holy love.” 
. ‘ * Old Ocean was, 
Infinity of ages ere we breathed 
Existence.—And he will be beautiful 
When all the living world that sees him now 
Shall roll unconscious dust around the Sun. 
Swelling, from age to age, the vital throb 
In human hearts, Death shall not subjugate 
The pulse that swells in 4zs stupendous breast, 
Or interdict his minstrelsy to sound, 
In thundering concert with the quiring winds ; 
But long as man to parent Nature owns 
Instinctive homage, and in times beyond 
The power of thought to reach, bard after bard 
Shall sing thy glory, beatific Sea.” —Campbell. 
Tux following is Dr. Johnston’s arrangement of the families 
and genera of Anthozoa asteroida :— 
Family I. Polype-mass free, pennated, carnous; the skin 
spiculiferous ; the axis bony, simple, continuous; po- 
lypes arranged along the margin of the pinne. PrEn- 
NATULIDA. 
