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bent and anguiform. I sent specimens of it to several of 

 ray zoophytological correspondents, but not one of them 

 said anything about it, and conjecturing that it might be 

 some common thing in an imperfect state, I neglected it, 

 and either lost or mislaid my remaining specimens. When 

 I required to say something about Anguinarice in this little 

 book, I bethought myself again of my little straggling 

 creeper, and remembering that I had sent a specimen of it 

 to Mrs. Gatty, of Ecclesfield, I requested her to send it to 

 Mr. Busk, of Greenwich, with whom she was in correspon- 

 dence, and I soon had a kind letter from him, stating that 

 it was an Anguinaria, similar to, if not identical with, his 

 Anguinaria, ligulata, which Mr. Darwin brought from Tierra 

 del Fuego, where it creeps in the same manner on broad - 

 fronded algaB. The only difference was, that his had a con- 

 traction where the pore begins to be laid open. He sent 

 me a drawing of the one from Lamlash Bay, and also a figure 

 of Anguinaria ligulata from the South Seas. They are re- 

 markably similar, with this difference, that in upwards of a 

 hundred pores or cells which I examined of our Scottish one, 

 there was not a single instance of their being constricted. 

 At all events, Mr. Busk says that it is new to our Fauna. 

 He has, since I wrote the above, examined it again ; and as 



