366 HISTORY OF BRITISH ZOOPHYTES. 
1. Cycioum paprtiosum, Hassall. 
Hab. Parasitical on Fucus serratus. 
This zoophyte, as well as the succeeding species, exhibits 
in a very remarkable degree the close adhesion to life, the 
usual accompaniment of a low organization, for after being 
coated over with ice, should they be immersed in sea-water 
the polypes will protrude their feelers and appear as active 
as if they had never been subjected to any such treatment. 
Genus XXII. SARCOCHITUM, Hassall. 
Gen. Char. Polypidom encrusting, fleshy, covered with nu- 
merous prominences of irregular form and unequal size, from 
which the polypes issue; ova circular, scattered; a dark-brown 
body of a circular form, filled with small round granules, is ap- 
parent in great numbers through the polypidom. 
1. Sarcocurrum potyoum, Hassall. 
Hab. Parasitical on Fucus serratus. 
Tribe 4. VESICULARINA. 
“ God, who gifted his creature man with an inquiring spirit, and with an 
appetite for knowledge of the works of creation,—to furnish him with objects 
of inquiry, and to gratify that appetite to the utmost, not only ornamented 
the dry land with what was fair to look upon,—not only placed before his 
eyes on the earth an innumerable host of creatures, of which he could gain 
