Notice of Sketches of Naval Life. 



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like an inverted cone about five inches in diameter ; and was va- 

 riegated with brilliant colors, red, yellow and purple*. It was a 



beautiful thing, and 

 1 wanted it: so I de- 

 termined to knock 

 it off, hoping some 

 chance might bring 

 it to the shore. I 

 threw, and saw I 

 struck it ; when the 

 water cleared up, 

 the stalk was there, 

 but I could not dis- 

 cover the flower. 

 After a vain search, 

 I went on further, 

 and came to anoth- 

 er, near the shore. 

 I thought I was sure 

 of this, and got a 

 stick to draw it to 

 me, when, as soon 

 as I touched it — 

 — the whole dis- 

 appeared. It was 

 all animal, — flower 

 and all. I have since 

 procured several, 

 and have preserved 

 them. The stalk is 

 formed by concen- 

 tric coats of grist- 

 ly matter, which 

 is transparent when 

 the outer one is re- 

 moved : it is attach- 

 ed to the rocks be- 

 low. This forms a 

 about seven inches long, with two 



1. Stalk. 



2. Flower. 



The animal with part of 

 the flower attached. 



tube, in which is an anima 

 rows of feet in its whole length 



at its upper end is the head, 



* By permission of t!ie puhlisher, we here insert the wood cut of this're- 

 uiarkable zoophyte, which appears to be, substantially described in Ellis, -oa 

 corallines, pa. 92, under the name of a tubular coralline, from Malta, 



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