104 GLAUCUS; OE, 



he has many a stout cousin round the Scotch coast, 

 who knows the antibilions panacea as well as he, and 

 submits, among the northern fishermen, to the rather 

 rude and undeserved name of sea-puddings ; one of 

 which grows in Shetland to the enormous length of 

 three feet, rivalling there his huge congeners, who 

 display their exquisite plumes on every tropic coral 

 reef* 



Next, what are those bright little buds, like 

 salmon-coloured Banksia roses half expanded, sitting 

 closely on the stone ? Touch them ; the soft part is 

 retracted, and the orange flower of flesh • is trans- 

 formed into a pale pink flower of stone. That is the 

 Madrepore, Caryophyllia Smithii (Plate V. fig. 2) ; 

 one of our south coast rarities ; and see, on the lip 

 of the last one, which we have carefully scooped 

 off with the chisel, two little pink towers of stone, 

 delicately striated ; drop them into this small bottle 

 of sea-water, and from the top of each tower 

 issues every half-second — what shall we call it? — 



* The Londoner may see noble specimens of them at the 

 Zoological Gardens; as also of the rare and beautiful Sabella, 

 figured in the same plate. 



