26 



THE STORY OF LIFE IN THE SEAS. 



uncommonly found amongst the bright green 

 Sea-weeds of our coast, is wonderfully similar, 

 both in form and colour, to the weeds on which 

 it lives. The Sea-horses, which have such a 

 curious form out of the water, in their natural 

 surrounding resemble the weeds so closely that 



FIG. 4. Phyllopteryx. 



they may be easily overlooked. A still more 

 remarkable example is to be found in the 

 curious fish Phyllopteryx, in which the body 

 is provided with long branched processes, mak- 

 ing it we may suppose much more difficult 

 to distinguish in its natural haunts than even 

 the Pipe-fish or Sea-horse. 



