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a noble figure in the second volume of Sir John Graham 
Dalyell’s splendid work. The stem of his is brownish, and 
the disc and plumes are lilac and light yellow. This one 
is a fine lively salmon-colour, though lighter or darker in 
different parts, according to their position and expansion. 
The mouth is orange; the disc light salmon-colour, and the 
plumes or fringes are of the same colour, but still lighter, 
towards the edges, like a fleecy silvery cloud, with a slight 
tint of yellow. The body, when expanded, is marked with 
numerous longitudinal veins of a lighter shade, sometimes 
straight and occasionally wavy. These are crossed by an- 
nulations of a yellower hue at the distance of about half an 
inch from each other, the intermediate space being marked 
with very faint veins running parallel with the rings. These 
are scarcely perceptible; but the longitudinal veins, crossed 
by the ochre-tinted rings, show about enough of tartan to 
mark its Highland origin. When it is about to fasten it- 
self on the bottom of the vessel, it spreads forth thin scol- 
loped folds around the base, longitudinally veined; but 
these are hid when adhesion has taken place. 
The upper portion of the external covering is very like 
the monophyllous calyx of a flower. From this sheath, 
when it expands, the plumes come forth like an unfolding 
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