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bent and anguiform. I sent specimens of it to several of 
my zoophytological correspondents, but not one of them 
said anything about it, and conjecturing that it might be 
some common thing in an imperfect state, I neglected it, 
and either lost or mislaid my remaining specimens. When 
I required to say something about Anguinarie in this little 
book, I bethought myself again of my little straggling 
creeper, and remembering that I had sent a specimen of it 
to Mrs. Gatty, of Kcclesfield, I requested her to send it to 
Mr. Busk, of Greenwich, with whom she was in correspon- 
dence, and I soon had a kind letter from him, stating that 
it was an Anguinaria, similar to, if not identical with, his 
Anguinaria ligulata, which Mr. Darwin brought from Tierra 
del Fuego, where it creeps in the same manner on broad- 
fronded algee. The only difference was, that his had a con- 
traction where the pore begins to be laid open. He sent 
me a drawing of the one from Lamlash Bay, and also a figure 
of Anguinaria ligulata from the South Seas. They are re- 
markably similar, with this difference, that in upwards of a 
hundred pores or cells which I examined of our Scottish one, 
there was not a single instance of their being constricted. 
At all events, Mr. Busk says that it is new to our Fauna. 
He has, since I wrote the above, examined it again; and as 
