OE, GLIMPSES BENEATH THE WATERS. 



space might not have appeared too much filled for 

 picturesque effect. Of vegetable specimens, he in- 

 troduced at once the following : — 



1. A tuft of Furcello/ria fasti- 



giata. 



2. Two oi Rhodymenia palmata, 



3. One of Bictyota dichotoma. 



4. A smaU Fucus serratus. 



5. One Laminar ia digit ata. 



6. Two tufts of Padina pavonia. 



7. Several masses of Corallina 



officinalis. 



8. .Griffithsia setacea. 



9. Dehsseria alata. 



10. Flocamium coccineum. 



1 1 . Fhylophora rub ens. 



12. Zoster a marina. 



In a few days the water, poured carefully to 

 these specimens, became clear as pale green crystal, 

 the green tinge being too slight to obscure the colour 

 of any object seen through its medium. 



Prom these weeds alone, before any supply of 

 Zoophytes or Molluscs were intentionally added, a 

 whole host of minute animal life swarmed forth; 

 some, doubtless, issuing from eggs newly hatched ; 

 others from the shelter of the matted ramifications 

 of some of the sea- weeds, in which they had been 

 taken, as in a net. Among these swarming crea- 

 tures were Annelids of the genus Syllis^ Missoce, and 

 other minute shell-fish, but principally Isopodoiis 

 and JEntomostracom Crustacea^ many of them being 

 so minute as not to be perceived without the use 

 of a powerful lens. 



