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figured in Dr. Johnston's excellent work, in plate v. 1, 2, 

 and also at p. 407. It seems to have been a special fa- 

 vourite of the late Sir J. G. Dalyell, and he gives splendid 

 figures of it in his great work, in plate vi. and plate vii. 

 It is a pleasure, also, to quote part of his enthusiastic de- 

 scription. " This is a splendid animal production, one of 

 the most singular, beautiful, and interesting among the 

 boundless works of Nature. Sometimes it resembles an 

 aged tree, blighted amidst the war of the elements, or 

 withered by the deep corrosions of time : sometimes it re- 

 sembles a vigorous flowering shrub in miniature, rising with 

 a dark brown stem, and diverging into numerous boughs, 

 branches, and twigs, terminating in so many hydras, wherein 

 red and yellow intermixed afford a fine contrast to the 

 whole." 



"The glowing colours of the one, and the venerable 

 aspect of the other, their intricate parts often laden with 

 prolific fruit, and their numberless tenants, all highly pic- 

 turesque, are equally calculated to attract our admiration to 

 the creative power displayed throughout the universe; and 

 to sanction the character of this product, as one of uncom- 

 mon interest and beauty. 



" A very fine specimen of the Tubularia ramea (Euden- 



