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they are less than an inch in height, but at Leith we got 

 them nearly two inches, completely covering the frond of the 

 F. serratus. The colour is horny ; the cells are opposite ; 

 the vesicles scattered and ovate. This species is very phos- 

 phorescent when the seaweed to which it adheres is suddenly 

 shaken in the dark. 



5. SERTULARIA EVANSII, Mr. John Evans. 



Hab. Yarmouth, where it was found by Mr. Evans, in 

 honour of whom it was named by Ellis, to whom it was sent 

 in 1767. It does not seem to be much known. 



6. SERTULARIA NIGRA, Pallas. 



Hab. Found at the Lizard, Cornwall, Pallas ; in several 

 places in Cornwall by E. Q. Couch ; Devonshire, Mrs. Grif- 

 fiths. 



Robust and erect, from three to seven or eight inches 

 high, of a blackish-brown colour when dead, at times tinted 

 with red. " But to see it in all its beauty," says Mr. Couch, 

 " it must be examined in a living state, and soon after it is 

 taken from the sea, when, instead of being black, it will be 

 found of a beautiful and delicate pink, and in some in- 

 stances of a deep arterial blood-colour. It is the stoutest 

 and most rigid of all our native Sertularia, but there are 

 several others which exceed it in beauty and delicacy/' 



