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GLAUCUS ; OR, 



Now away, and as a specimen of the fertility 

 of the water-world, look at this rough list of 

 species,* the greater part of which are on this 

 very stone, and all of which you might obtain in 

 an hour, would the rude tide wait for zoologists ; 

 and remember, that the number of individuals 

 of each species of polype must be counted by 

 tens of thousands, and also, that, by searching 

 the forest of sea-weeds which covers the upper 



* Ilollusks. 



Doris tubcrculata. Anomite, — 2 or 3 spe- Sortularia fallax. 



bilincata. cios. filicula. 



Eolis papillosa. Cynthia, — 2 species. Plumularia falcata. 



Pleurobranchus plu- Botryllus, do. setacca. 



mula. 

 Ncritina. 

 Cyprsca. 



Trochus, — 2 species 

 Mangelia. 

 Triton. 

 Trophon. 

 Nasa, — 2 species. 

 Cerithium. 

 Sigarctus. 

 Fissurclla. 

 Area lactea. 

 Pecten pusio. 

 Tapes pulkstra. 

 Kcllia suborbicula- Cucumaria 



ris. manni. 



Sphsenia Binghami. communis. 



Saxicava rugosa. 



Gastroch(jena phola- Polypes. 



<lia. Sertularia pumila, 

 Piiolas parva. rugosa. 



Sydinum? Laomedea geniculata. 



Campanularia TOlubi- 

 Annelids. jjg 



Phyllodoce, and Other Actinia mesembryan- 



Nereid worms. 

 Polynoe squamata. 



themum. 



clavata. 



anguicoma. 



crassicornis. 



Tubulipora patina. 



hispida. 



serpens. 



Crisia ebumea. 

 Ccllopora puniicosa. 

 Ophiocoma neglecta. Lcpralia;, — many spe- 

 Ilynd- cies. 



Membranipora pilosa. 

 Cellularia ciliata. 



scruposa. 



reptans. 



Flustni mcmbrana. 



cea, &c. 



Crustacea, 



4 or 5 species. 



Echinoderms. 



Echinius miliaria. 

 Asterias gibbo.sa. 



