CO NATURAL HISTORY OF 



tion by Sir J. G. Dalyell* has often been quoted as 

 showing the singular beauty and ti-ee-like appearance 

 of this species : — 



" Tiiis is a splendid animal production — one of the 

 most singular, beautiful, and interesting among the 

 boundless works of nature. Sometimes it resembles 

 an aged tree blighted amidst the war of the elements, 

 or withered by the deep corrosions of time ; sometimes 

 it resembles a vigorous flowering shrub in miniature, 

 rising with a dark brown stem, and diverging into 

 numerous boughs, branches, and twigs, terminating in 

 so many hydrse, wherein red and yellow intermixed 

 afford a fine contrast to the whole. The glowing 

 colours of the one, and the venerable aspect of the 

 other — their intricate parts often laden with prolific 

 fruit, and their numberless tenants, all highly pic- 

 turesque — are equally calculated to attract our admi- 

 ration to the creative power displayed throughout the 

 universe ; and to sanction the character of this product 

 as one of uncommon interest and beauty." 



Mr. Mcintosh has found specimens at St. Andrew's, 

 9 in. high with a breadth of 8 in. 



2. E. EAMosuM, Linn. Plate III. fig. 5. 



Tubularia ramosa {Linn., Lh., Jjamx., E. and S., 

 BerJc., Turt., Stew., Base, Flem., Hogg, Stark, Temp.^, 

 De B., G. J., R. Q. C), ? Sertularia racemosa {Cav.), 

 Tubularia trichoides {Pal., Be B.), Fistularia ramosa 

 {Mi'dl.), Fistulana ramosa {Fahr.). 



Hab. : generally distributed. Height 4 — 6 in. 



Stem reddish-brown to black, much branched, branches 



ringed at origin. Polypite vermilion; about 20 white 



tentacles. Some of the polypites are armed with a 



* " Eem. An. of Scotland," i. 50. 



