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cally projected from this orifice may be the mould, if I 

 may so say, upon which this coronal fringe is modelled, 

 or at least a means of restoring its form if acciden- 

 tally injured. I had a specimen at Torquay, much 

 larger than this, globose in form and about half an 

 inch in diameter. The neck of fringing spines had 

 been accidentally crushed and distorted; but after it 

 had lain for some days in a vessel of sea-water I was 

 agreeably surprised to find it restored to its original 

 regularity aad beauty. I cannot detect any jet of 

 water from this specimen before me, but in that ob- 

 tained at Torquay, (unless my memory greatly fails 

 me,) T distinctly and repeatedly saw it. 



