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little bright red and yellow pea, too, touch it—the 
‘brilliant coloured cloak is withdrawn, and, instead, 
you have a beautiful ribbed pink cowry,’ our only 
European representative of that grand tropical family. 
Cast one wondering glance, too, at the forest of 
zoophytes and corals, Lepralie and Flustre, and 
those quaint blue stars, set in brown jelly, which 
are no zoophytes, but respectable molluses, each with 
his well-formed mouth and intestines,? but combined 
in a peculiar form of Communism, of which all one 
can say is, that one hopes they like it; and that, at 
all events, they agree better than the heroes and 
heroines of Mr. Hawthorne’s “ Blithedale Romance.” 
Now away, and as a specimen of the fertility of 
the water-world, look at this rough list of species,? 
1 Cyprea Europea. 2 Botrylli. 
3 Molluscs. Trochus,—2 species. Arca lactea. 
Doris tuberculata. Mangelia. Pecten pusio. 
bilineata. Triton. Tapes pullastra. 
Eolis papillosa. Trophon. Kellia suborbicularis. 
Pleurobranchus plu- Nassa,—2 species. Sphenia Binghami. 
mula. Cerithium. Saxicava rugosa. 
Neritina. Sigaretus. Gastrocheena pholadia. 
Cyprea. Fissurelia. Pholas parva. 
