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A Visit to Llandudno. 



as the most accessible beach — that of the Conway estuary — is 

 rather poor in specimens, and the other one — opposite the 

 Parade and below the Baths — does not yield much, except at 

 low spring tides. On such occasions you must watch the time, 

 rush down at the right moment, search in nooks and crannies 



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with impetuous haste, chisel and hammer at the rocks with 

 speculative rapidity, never mind if the waves turn round upon 

 you before your labours are concluded, provided that they leave 

 a possibility of retreat, and you will then return duly splashed 

 and wetted, with bottles and a basket full of treasures which 

 will keep your hands and microscope employed for many a day. 

 Many parts of the Devonshire and Dorsetshire coasts are 

 much more practicable for ladies, who ought to be made upon 

 mermaid principles, with their lower halves specially adapted 

 to the briny abode of the tritons and the nymphs, in order to 

 enjoy the slopping and puddling manoeuvres which the Llan- 

 dudno collector has to go through. The process is, however, 

 well worth the trouble, as my first haul will show. Here was 

 a reddish-yellow gristly and slimy lump, ugly enough before 

 being placed in a basin of water, at his ease. Then out came 

 the elegant bunch of gill plumes from his back, the pretty 

 tentacles from his head, and the fine sea-slug, the Doris tuber- 



Sertularia fellas. 



„ abietina. 



j, filicula. 



„ operculata. 



,, argentea. 

 Sertulariacupressina. 



„ pumila. 



„ rugosa. 

 Antcnnularia antennina. 



Sngartia viduata. 

 ,, troglodytes. 

 „ aur. 

 „ venuste. 

 ,, miniate. 

 „ coccinca. 



Plivmularia falcata. 



„ cristate. 



„ setacea. 



Laomedea geniculate. 



„ gelatinosa. 

 Campanularia duniosa. 

 „ Tolnbilis. 



Alcyonium digitatum. 



Axemokes. 



Aetinoloba dianthus. 

 Actinia mesembryantliernum. 

 Bunodes erassicornis. 

 Edwarsia carnea. 

 Peachia hastate, 

 etc., etc. 



POLYZOA. 



Tubulipora. 

 I 

 ,, denticulate. 



dia cornuta. 

 Oellalaria, 

 Bora] 



( Sanaa r< ptans. 

 G-emellana loricata. 



Ilaria ciliata. 



Bugula nvifuhiria. 

 ilustra (bliacca. 

 Membra ni] ora mei 



Membranipora pilosa. 



I >epralki (various). 



Cellipora. 



Alcj onidium gclatinosum. 



„ Eirautum. 



Oycloum papillosum. 

 Valkeria. 

 Bowerbankia. 

 Pedicellina Bclgicn. 

 „ cchinata. 



etc., etc. 



