128 GLAUCUS; OR, 



little bright red and yellow pea, too, touch it — the 

 brilliant coloured cloak is withdrawn, and, instead, 

 you have a beautifully ribbed pink cowi'y,* our only 

 European representative of that grand tropical family. 

 Cast one wondering glance, too, at the forest of 

 zoophytes and corals, Lepralise and Flustrse, and 

 those quaint blue stars, set in brown jeUy, which 

 are no zoophytes, but respectable molluscs, each with 

 his well-formed mouth and intestines,*]- but combined 

 in a peculiar form of Communism, of which all one 

 can say is, that one hopes they like it ; and that, at 

 all events, they agree better than the heroes and 

 heroines of Mr. Hawthorne's Blithedale Eomance. 



ISTow away, and as a specimen of the fertility of 

 the water-world, look at this rough list of species,| 



* Cypreea Europeea. f Botrylli. 



i Molluscs. 



Doris tuberculata. Troclius, — 2 species. Fissiirella. 



bilineata. Mangelia. Area lactea. 



Eolis papillosa. Triton. Pecten pusio. 



Pleurobranchus plu- Trophon. Tapes pullastra. 



mula. Nassa, — 2 species. Kellia suborbicularis. 



Neritina. Cerithium. Spbeenia Bingbami. 



Cyprsea. Sigaretus. Saxicava rugosa. 



