INDEX AND GLOSSARY. 



319 



Ectocarpus (a genus of sea- weed), 

 103. 



Encrinites (Lily Stones), 167. 



Enteromorpha (a genus of sea- 

 weed), 89. 



Entomology, the history of insects, 

 16. 



Entomostraca (Sea-lice), 252. 



Epiphyte, a vegetable which at- 

 taches its roots to the surface 

 of another vegetable, for the 

 purpose of support, but does 

 not draw nourishment from 

 the stem it adheres to. 



Equilibrium Theory, 4447. 



Eringium (Eringo), 273. 



EscharidtB (a family of Polyzoa), 

 128. 



Establishment of a Port, 48. 



Euphorbia paralias, 279; African 

 species of Euphorbia, 279. 



Euphrasia (Eye-bright), 278. 



Evaporation, a cause of currents, 

 37. 



F. 



Fanciful systems, 2. 



Fauna, a name applied by Lin- 

 naeus to a history of the ani- 

 mals of any particular district, 

 as Flora is used for a local 

 history of plants. 



Feather Star (Comatula), 168, 

 169. 



Fins of fishes, 239. 



Fire, or lights used in fishing, 

 253. 



Fish diet, 263268. 



Fishes in season, 262. 



Floridea (see tthodospermea'), a 

 sub-class of sea-weeds, 103. 



Flue, or trammel net, 255. 



Flustra foliacea, 76. 



Foot prints and marks on the 

 sands, 57. 



Foraminifera, minute shell-coated 



animals, 214 ; examples of, 



214 ; their affinities, 215, 216. 

 Fratercula arclica (Puffin), 291 . 

 Fregilus graculus (Chough), 284. 

 Frustide, a term applied to the 



cells or articulations of the 



Diatomacece, &c., 206. 

 Fucus (a genus of sea-weed), 



95 ; its common species, 95, 



96 ; varieties of F. vesiculosus, 



98. 

 Fulmar (Procellaria glacialis) , 



G. 



Gannet (Sula alba), 293. 



Gasteropoda (a class of Mollus- 

 cous animals), described, 137; 

 structure of animal, 138 ; 

 tongue, 138, 139; classifica- 

 tion, 139 ; Pulmonibranchiate 

 order, 139; Nudibranchiate, 

 140; Tectibranchiate, 140; Pec- 

 tinibratichiate, 141 ; Scutibran- 

 chiate, 141 ; Q/clobratichiate, 

 141 ; habits and organization, 

 142, 143. 



Geology, pleasures of, 9. 



Glaucium luteum (Homed. Poppy), 

 273. 



Glaux maritima, 276. 



Goosander (Mcrgus merganser), 

 288. 



Gorgonia, 184, 185. 



Grass Wrack (Zostera), 81. 



Grey-mullet, 254: 



Grijfithsia corallina, 104. 



Guillemot (Uria troile), 290. 



Gulf-stream, 3840. 



Gulls, habits of, 295. 



Gurnards, 254. 



H. 



Habitat, the place in which a 



