SqUIRTS, POLYPS, AND JELLY-FISHES. 67 



ance of a gooseberry, but of an exquisitely deli- 

 cate structure, is occasionally thrown on our shores. 

 It is the Pkurobrachia rkododadyla, the type of a 



group known as the comb- 

 bearers ( Cienophora), which 

 differ in some essential 



POEPTTA. 



points of structure from 

 the normal jelly-fishes. 



Probably all jelly-fishes 

 are phosphorescent, and 



PlEUBOBEACHli. 



the glow of golden light 

 which they emit consti- 

 tutes one of the splen- 

 dors of the oceanic waste. 

 From far and near, if the sea be agitated, the 

 mellow lights may be observed to illumine the en- 

 veloping darkness, while along the surf-bound coast 



POETUGUESE-MAN-or-WAE. 



(after Tenney.) 



