X. CONTEXTS. 



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— 

 Spiculae — 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—AValk 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 



