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object, and we see the Creator's wisdom and kindness in its 

 structure. "This elegant microscopic species is furnished 

 with a delicate joint or hinge, situated at the base of each 

 little cup. This beautiful contrivance is designed, I ima- 

 gine, to enable this frail zoophyte the better to elude the 

 rude contact of the element by which it is surrounded, by 

 permitting it to bend to a force which it cannot resist." 

 (Hawaii.) 



2. CAMPANULARIA INTEGRA, W. W. Saunders. (Plate XI. 

 fig. 38.) 



Hab. Donmouth, parasitical on Tubularia indivisa, J. 

 Macgillivray ; Hastings, W. W. Saunders; on stones and 

 shells from deep water, Polperro, Mr. Couch. 



" This species, which I believe to be new, differs from the 

 preceding in having cells with the rim entire, and not ser- 

 rulated as in C. volubilis. With C. syringa, the only other 

 British species of the genus which has a single tube for 

 a stem, it can never be confounded; the denser corneous 

 texture, cylindrical tubular cells, and short pedicles of C. 

 syringa, are perfectly distinctive." (/. Macgillivray.} 



I observed what I regarded as this species, on algse kindly 

 sent to me by Miss S. Beever of Coniston, which had been 

 transmitted from the Isle of Man ; but as the specimens had 



