92 GLAUCUS; OR, 
hastata (Pl. XII. Fig. 1), which differs from most 
other British Actinize in this, that instead of having 
like them a walking disc, it has a free open lower 
end, with which (I know not how) it buries 
itself upright in the sand, with its mouth just 
above the surface. The figure on the left of the 
plate represents a curious cluster of papille which 
project from one side of the mouth, and are the 
opening of the oviduct. But his value consists, 
not merely in his beauty (though that, really, is 
not small), but in his belonging to what the long- 
word-makers call an “interosculant” group,—a party 
of genera and species which connect families scien- 
tifically far apart, filling up a fresh link in the great 
chain, or rather the great network, of zoological 
classification. For here we have a simple, and, as 
it were, crude form; of which, if we dared to 
indulge in reveries, we might say that the Creative 
Mind realized it before either Actiniz or Holothu- 
rians, and then went on to perfect the idea con- 
tained in it in two different directions; dividing 
it into two different families, and making on its 
