Notice of Sketches of Naval Life. 329 
like an inverted cone about five inches in diameter; and was va- 
riegated with brilliant colors, red, yellow and purple*. It was a 
—— beautiful thing, and 
di Ide 
but I could not dis- 
cover the flower. 
= After a vain search, 
fi 
1. Stalk... 3. The animal with partof moved: it is attach- 
2. Flower. the flower attached. ed 
. This forms a 
tube, in which is an animal, about seven inches long, with two 
rows of feet in its whole length: at its upper end is the head, 
, we here insert the wood cut of this re- 
By permission of the publisher Ellis, on 
* 
markable zoophyte, which appears to be, substantially described in 
corallines, a 92, under the name of a tubular coralline, from Malta 
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