116 GLAUCUS; OR, 
serpent aud the eagle. For when his teeth ache, 
or his digestive organs trouble him, all he has to 
do is just to cast up forthwith his entire inside, 
and, faisant maigre for a month or so, grow a fresh 
set, and then eat away as merrily as ever. His 
name, if you wish to consult so triumphant a 
hygeist, is Cucumaria Pentactes: but he has many 
a stout cousin round the Scotch coast, who knows 
the antibilious panacea as well as he, and submits, 
among the northern fishermen, to the rather rude 
and undeserved name of sea-puddings; one of 
which grows in Shetland to the enormous length 
of three feet, rivalling there his huge congeners, 
who display their exquisite plumes on every tropic 
coral reef. ? 
Next, what are those bright little buds, like 
salmon-coloured Banksia roses half expanded, sit- 
ting closely on the stone? Touch them; the soft 
part is retracted, and the orange flower of flesh is 
1 The Londoner may see specimens of them at the Zoological 
Gardens and at the Crystal Palace ; asalso of the rare and beautiful 
Sabella, figured in the same plate ; and of the Balanophyllia, or a 
elosely-allied species, from the Mediterranean, mentioned in p. 109. 
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