270 OCTOBER. 



respective stages, without knowing their previous 

 history, that each was an independent form of animal 

 life. 



As the closer and more severe scrutiny of anatomical 

 structure has induced modern zoologists to separate the 

 Lucernaria from its formerly assigned alliance with the 

 Sea- anemones, and to associate it with the Medusae, it 

 is interesting to remark that the scales of justice have 

 been maintained in equipoise by the like shifting of a 

 member from the Medusae to the Anemones. The latter 

 animal is one familiar to most haunters of the shore, 

 and invariably admired as one of the most charming of 

 the many lovely forms that throng the summer seas ; 

 it is the sweet little Beroe, or Cydippe. 1 Indeed at first 

 sight you would be little disposed to admit the pro- 

 priety of the transfer in this case, for certainly the active 

 glittering globule of pure crystal appears to possess 

 much more resemblance to one of the smaller Medusae, 

 the Sarsia, for instance, than to a daisy or a beadlet. 

 But naturalists look beneath the surface : and they find 

 that, with important peculiarities, the internal economy 

 of the Cydippe, and specially its digestive apparatus, are 

 modelled rather on the type of the latter than of the 

 former. 



1 Cydippe pileus, seen, of the size of life, near the upper left-hand corner 

 of Plate xxx. 



