77 



CHAPTER III. 

 ANTHOZOA HYDEOIDA. 



" The ocean with its brightness, its blue-green, 

 Its ships, its rocks, its cares, its hopes, its fears, 

 Its voice mysterious, which whoso hears 

 Must think on what will be, or what has been." 



" Type of the Infinite ! I look away 

 Over thy billows, and I cannot stay 

 My thought upon a resting-place, or make 

 A shore beyond my vision where they break ; 

 But on my spirit stretches till 'tis pain 

 To think ; then rests, and then puts forth again -. 

 Thou hold'st me by a spell ; and on thy beach 

 I feel all soul ; and thoughts unmeasured reach 

 Far back beyond all date." 



DR. JOHNSTON arranges the British species of ANTHOZOA 

 HYDROIDA under the following tribes, families, and genera: 



* Ovisacs or bulbules naked, bud-like, pullulating from the 

 bases of the tentacula. TUBULARINA. 



