CONTENTS. XllU 



thea-lts Tentacles retractile — Their Structure — Thread- 

 Capsules — A Summer Morning Walk — Autumnal Flowers — 

 Lahgley Open — The Hangman — Curious Legend — Coast 

 Scenery — Lee — A Ship's Travels — Solitude — Caves — Sponges 

 — The Hispid Flustra — Its Appearance and Structure — 

 Expansion of its Bells — Ciliary Action — A miniature "Whirl- 

 pool — Visit to Braunton — Carn Top — Tragical Legend — 

 Score Valley — Squirrels — Trentistowe — "White Bindweed — 

 Oak Hedges — Reaping — Braunton — Curious monumental 

 Inscription — Braunton Burrows — Sea-side Rocks — Marine 

 Animals — Rare Plants on the Cliffs — Snails — Botany of the 

 Burrows — Insects — Shells — The Feather Plumularia — Its 

 Egg- Vesicles — Young Polypes — Their Development from 

 Planules — Structure of the Polype. 261 



CHAPTER XII. 



A Visit to Smallmouth Caves — Chasm formed by a Rock-slip — 

 View of Samson's Bay — Samson's Cave— Smallmouth — 

 Natural Tunnel — View of Combmartin Bay — Brier Cave — 

 Abundance of Animals — The Twining Campanularia — Form 

 of its Cells— The Polypes— The Egg- Vesicles— Birth of a 

 Medusoid — Its Form and Structure — Tentacles — Eyes — Cir- 

 culating Canals^Altemation of Generations — Ride towards 

 Barricane — A Showery Journey — Lee — Damage Farm — A 

 romantic Dell — Devonshire "Wells — Rockham Bay — White 

 Pebbles — Morte Stone — Shipwreck — Gallant Exploit — Morte 

 — ^Tomb of De Tracy — Approach of a Storm — Kestrels — 

 Parasites on a Crab — The Bristle Plumularia — Birth of its 

 Young — Dissolution — The Lobster's Horn Coralline — Second- 

 ary Cells — Suggestion of their Purpose — Egg- Vesicles — 

 Birth of the Planule — Its Development into the Polype-form 

 —Death. 292 



CHAPTER XIII. 



Capstone Spout-Holes — Purple Hue of low Rocks — ^Tadpole of a 

 Mollusk — Its Habits — Visit to Barricane — A Beach of Shells — 

 Rock-pools — Their Contents — Antiopa — Its Spawn — Hatch- 

 ing of the Embryos — Immense Number in one Brood — The 

 Torrs — Bloody Field — Flowers— View from the Cliff— Torr 



