86 GLAUCUS ; OR, 



Hyndmanni, named after Mr. Hyndmann of Bel- 

 fast, his first discoverer : but he has many a stout 

 cousin round the Scotch coast, who knows the 

 antibilious panacea as well as he, and submits, 

 among the Northern fishermen, to the rather rude 

 and undeserved name of sea-puddings ; one of 

 which grows in Shetland to the enormous length 

 of three feet, rivalling there his huge congeners, 

 who display their exquisite plumes oji every 

 tropic coral reef. 



Next, what are those bright little buds, like 

 salmon-colored Banksia roses half expanded, 

 sitting closely on the stone ? Touch them ; the 

 soft part is retracted, and the orange flower of 

 flesh is transformed into a pale pink flower of 

 stone. That is the Madrepore, Caryophyllia 

 Smithii, one of our south coast rarities ; and see, 

 on the lip of the last one, which we have care- 

 fully scooped ofi* with the chisel, two little pink 

 towers of stone, delicately striated ; drop them 

 into this small bottle of sea-water, and from the 

 top of each tower issues every half second — what 

 shall we call it? — a hand or a net of finest hairs, 

 clutching at something invisible to our grosser 

 sense. That is the Pyrgoma, parasitic only (as 

 far as we know) on the lip of this same rare 



