X. CONTENTS. 



Shore— The Painted Scallop— Its Beauty— Mantle — Tentacles 

 — Gem-like Eyes — Climbing Powers — Leaps — Mode of per- 

 forming these misunderstood — Explanation — Functions and 

 Structure of the Eyes — Structure of the Gills — Ciliary Action 

 — Beauty of the Phenomenon — Oddicombe Rock-pool — Its 

 Form — Contents— The Feather-star — Its Habits in Captivity — 

 Reproduction of its Limbs — Watcombe — Romantic Scenery 

 Sandstone Cliffs— The Sea Lemon — The Purple Dye — Mode 

 of applying it — Changes of Colour— Tor Abbey Sands— Shore 

 Animals— The Pholas— Its Siphons— Their Use, Structure 

 and Currents— Curious Contrivance — Anstey's Cove — View 

 from Babbicombe Downs — Skylark's Song — Precipice of 

 Limestone — Abundance of Animals — Pleurobranchus. 44 



CHAPTER IV. 



The Dead Man's Fingers — Appearance when contracted — when 

 expanded— Beauty of the flower-like Polypes— Structure — 

 Spiculse — The Polypidom — Zoophytes and Crustacea upon 

 Tangle — Small Nudibranchs and their Spawn— The Angled 

 Laomedea — Its medusiform Young — Appearance, Manners 

 and Structure of the Embryo — Escape of one from the Vesicle 

 — Regular Arrangement of the Zoophytes — The Rosy Ane- 

 mone — Its Locality — Description — Habits — Structure — The 

 Snowy-disked Anemone— Peculiarities of its Locality — De- 

 scription — The Snake-locked Anemone — Description — Fare- 

 well to South Devon. 76 



CHAPTER V. 



llfracombe — Beautiful Scenery —Walk to Watermouth— Hele — 

 Hockey Lane — Fine Sea-view^Daws — Doves — Charms of 

 Spring — Watermouth — Curious mode of Fishing — Grove of 

 Flowers — Rabbits— Sharp Rocks — Gemmaceous Anemone — 

 Living Madrepores — Their Localities — Appearance — Mode of 

 detaching them — Their Structure — The Plates — Beauty of 

 the Animal — Protrusion of the soft Parts — Their Translu- 

 cency — Analogy with the Anemone — Brilliancy of Colours — 

 Tentacles — Cilia on their Surface — The globose Heads — The 

 Tentacles are tubular — Imprisoned Animalcule— Sensibility 



