758 THE GARDENERS? CHRON LGA . | [Noy 
of the season, during more genial “weather, the ‘the flowers which adorn our r garde ens. Many of ou ur "momentarily, die away again, — = 
From an 
fading . would be delayed, and consequently, sailors, who bring — to their friends beautiful frag- some new shock or injury is given“ 
that in proportion the vac period is pro- ments of coral, not aware that they were once ments that I have made 
canal the jetigth of. the tubular formation would be ergy} for — were RERNI whe * uncovered und fresher they were, the more ea 
increased ; but it seems — whether thee tubes by the tide, the inmates were unseen, having retreated luminosity. he Sea- pen sis:-of « 4 
ever ptako tubular aes their ent e length. into their — cells — the waves sould evisit them. | found it as lum ninous as those of the Hy, 
On the two —— us pet u the inner r infer rior | A ship-ma told me that on his yage to the not the opportunity, indeed, of trying the expe 2 
f each, on a peat amar prer the claw takes its South Seas rr delighted with ais ‘beaut corals | it in the sea, but when quite alive in 3 
origin, there is à ridge of hair of a totally different which shot od on the shore, he resolved to bring water, I found that ite mitted, when s 
character from that on the claw of the spurred Petal, home pre 8 to his friends in Scotland, — laid in a flashof phos e eee 2 When I bro 
being at all apes pervious eee 2 e praa eg ply but he had not been pad 2 at sea Den from the in a ‘close vase 
within a trifle of its J entren ity, when it when his collection became so nine ury that he was water ad hering to N Seaweeds kept them 
again grad ually ese in 8 until it ‘hare glad 10 wae — = rems into the dep. — . alive during the transit, occupying less 
almost spherically, There is not any second cell to be voyage he profited by past 3 and having hour, as is 3 had remained on the rn 
detected in any portion of these xt even i red enclosed his ares in a A he plunged N. en into n © seaweeds grew, and where many ther: aie 
flower opens; their origin and terminatio and fastening the net by a om — the stern, x 2 eb tide, are 1 deserted by the Sea. Tak, 
a simple cell, lengthening oad ‘dilating; wai 4 raa Aao sound it to be dragged: in the wake of the vessel for | the a darkened room half an pee 
they are clearly unieellular. — the multicellular ag several days. When hauled up at the — of this ase. were remo ae from the suite. I found the phos 
it is evident that in order to secure a tubul 1 é, | ae corals were found to be sweet and pure. e little }reseent light, when preci shaken, quite 
Nature clearly manifests her — b rating a scavengers of the deep had e — — minutest cell, The experience of Mr. W — 3 
e linear series of cells, and that ‘this multicellular nnd had eaten op what, ir n consegue of putrefaction, tan accurate observ yer, seems ve been the 
tube shall be a cone, She as clearly manifests her deter- ould soon, as. a former oceasion, Rare sent forth a 15 — remarks, IL do not think 1 probable the 
mination by generating cells, gradually decreasing in offensive odour. ] ren a Zoophytes is eau d by 5 
transverse diameter from the base to its apex ; and it| „ There are various kinds of ciliated polypes ; but we | , decom posi 7. as | 
would seem that where she has co 2 her cellular mean to confine our 3 jon to that section of them to January, 
arrangement as regards cheir Sante and formation, | which Lamarck ha angie the name of . — and 
her subsequent “care is, ere © pecan and amalga- only to ae Ww fra these. for he:has. deseribed less than le to put tomni, 
mating process, to unite the adjoining cell walls into 28 spec eeording to his description, — very them fr } 
“one compact eeptem ee * a es- bee AS minute, latinas and transparent, having no tentacula, sooner ked at, because it was not dark till 
nes this- Septanm, i is nable to hope but ha v around — mouth silny-whinh do not lay | time after their eapture. Torn fre 1 
nihilo — investigations hold of thle pee which, by an oseillating or rotatory | e certainly were, but they w 
Of the ae ‘growth and form of the motion of inexpre: eile rapidity, cause the water con- and placed in a huge vase 
3 tube, at different N er its age, taining ns jE e which they feed to enter their our quarters. The Zoophytes on 
y furnish material data ta on which to found a know- mouth a little whi e or vortex, and hence the home in the same way, made their positions 
? Tede or of the probable mode of its absorption or remova J. diminutive term, ‘Vorticell exhibiting their tender and beautiful lights. My 
“fo discover whether wth} e The first that Diever observed was one of the most Mr. Hassall, has the following i ing remar 
tg the ope opening: and fading flower kept pace with cellular I the Annals of Natural 
Vor I had b rought from a pond a handful of that mi had ascertained that ; 
* of the tubular portions o of the two 7 of growth ofa 12 5 ants and having put them into a vase with | Zoophytes possess vw oe luminous: properties, his 
eultivated and found that the average trausverse fresh-wate I soon found, as | expected, that I had made fact, he subjoins, I s 
bud mar diam “Ne of the hair-of the ale id r tube of several green Hydras prisoners. While I was . of, annaka gelati — a on 
an ordinary full b der Sista 1 ee r, was 1-1540th, their movements, I observed a sudden jerk in something variety of other species. If a portion of itpat 
sihist the tubular diameter o the opening flower was any ee Litt too small to. attract my attention so long to the seaweed which it is attached, 
1 z. 1ed . 
» 1-2320th, motionless. Fixing my eye on, it, i from the water an 
Lain. The average of the tubular diameter of the —..—.— — and having remained motionless for bright phosphorescent spark 
ag con 
1I.928ch, whilst the tubular diameter of the opening for I saw m ithad ee — — ar | apparent wliether the specimen be in or on 
‘9 (flower ‘was I-15 46th, ens an inerease during the to * side oft the glass, and employing a pretty powerful I lately had an ity of isin 
period of 1 On meri ‘thé trans- lens, I saw that what * the ehi ea e had seemed a interesting sight of the phosphorescence of Z 
verse diameter of tight uiticellalar tube of the full little — haze, was a — — eae ats to great al van when one of the Wen 
blown flower in its native ! apai it rf be 1-3437th, | unlike anything I Bad ever observed befor s'in | shire trawling-boats, which. frequent this coast Tl 
Pullst that of the op as 1.256 8th, giving e» form of a little crystal shrub, the raat tem — which trawl was raised at midnight, and ‘great:quautiie: 
. ption ‘of the 8 re dichotomously divided, every branch terminating |:coraliines were entangled in the meshes of tis nett, 
of L871 meter of the unicellular the itt haped flower. Further all shining like myriads of the brightest diamonds” 
-wild flower, ‘which was ede eee e observations otda 88 that the sudden changes of If the reader would know what Asteroida, Hym 
whilst that of the open ng flower was 1-1376th, giving were effected by a beautiful peculiarity ‘of and Laomed. „ h uilt 
an seg. 1-688th.” The paper was illustrated by ast teat the stem and the branches, finer than pages and plates. 
* “drawings and by ee under wit microscope. | the thread of a spider's web, were not straight, but 
2. On the daun, land Forms of ‘Myoso By Mr. J. spiral, like, the. springs. formed of spiral wires; that 
B. Davies. 4. On the “ten fo in in ee in it could coil and uneoil these elastic springs at pleasure ; 
June 1852, By Mr. J. B. D that it rose to its full dimensions when seeking its food; 
Xrulew. b — 
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as brave or show daie . — we falling 8 flat on the 
e- fiel 
i passing an 
A Popular History of British Zoophytes or en Cowillines. Lover, them, that When the —— ha stheir | 
0 i . y have wasted their 
By the Rev. D. er- D. D. Reeve and Co, strength, they may rise and rush upon them.“ | 
s ns ma 2 — i The next that came under my notice — 
Vorticella stentoria. i 
“of Ath popular ow is quite a t | for placing in co 
by — same publishers as familiar introductions among this pigm fi he fall a lopod 5 — 
10 different branches of Natural History. Of some porn yr Py * — dee “half Lare y eke ee —— 
of its predecessors we have on former occasions: spoken | an se AE oor half a lime, < which is the tw pasta tag ili 
has 
“favourably, and we must not withhold | our bart of an inch. This, as well as some. 
T— 00 subjects, in preparing stato, of attachment, it can; disengage: itelt and launch | 
a ys * exp g usk, into the e deep, and swim w wiih apeten jage 
—— are not intended merely to add toits beauty. closes, Reno is no escape. The Stentors — oning puo | 7 
one of these little holes, or cells. as they are colours, 80 green or blue, and some of 
tli ‘Dass * sa ee of — — 3 — them ias the bade as well as the * prse i 
P whole life it was ng up its ith gilia, doubtless to increase th 
abode, and that without any painful effort on the part tion,’ EE Danae, foes vipa — 
one inmate, which was all the while enjoying itself 4 The power — Pe — as welbas not r 
waves, $ g out its numerous | few other marine animals, ha ve of emi 
‘tentacula in searel of —— the waters; or rescent light, is a — — t a d property. It has 
ture ow been observed by many, and is well deserving of 
rangers ready on tl ne -alightest warn —— 10 retreat yeyen more attention than it hes yet. received, fi 
its es eave, where it was safe as amidst the It has been questioned ary wd this phosphorescent , tea 
—— rocks. j fluid is a secretion of liſe a — — or the result of 
When ; Cinch 
