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the greater part of which are on this very stone, and 
all of which you might obtain in an hour, would the 
rude tide wait for zoologists: and remember that the 
number of individuals of each species of polype must 
be counted by tens of thousands; and also, that, by 
searching the forest of sea-weeds which covers the 
- upper surface, we should probably obtain some twenty 
minute species more. 
A goodly catalogue this, surely, of the inhabitants 
of three or four large stones ; and yet how small a 
specimen of the multitudinous nations of the sea! 
Anomiz, —2 or 3spe- Cucumaria Hynd- Actinia clavata, 
cies. manni. anguicoma. 
Cynthia,—2 species. _——- communis. crassicornis. 
Botryllus, do. Tubulipora patina. 
Polypes. —— hispida. 
Annelids. Sertularia pumila. —— serpens. 
Phyllodoce, and other —_ rugosa. Crisia eburnea. 
Nereid worms. — fallax. Cellepora pumicosa. 
Polynoe squamata.  — filicula. Lepraliz,—many spe- 
Plumularia falcata. cies. 
So a setacea. Membranipora pilosa. 
oS Laomedea geniculata. Cellularia ciliata. 
Echinoderms. Campanularia volubi- —— scruposa. 
Echinus miliaris. lis. —— reptans. 
Asterias gibbosa. Actinia mesembryan- Flustra membraua- 
Ophiocoma neglecta. themum, cea, &c. 
