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round some tuft of flexible coral or sea-weed. The case thus 
becomes drawn from the body, and the remaining tendrils serve 
o nnA it to the substance to which it is attached; to which, 
^it a culling and contracting motion it becomes bound very 
iRi y. I have seen where this action has caused the whole to 
^ nest, with the treasure well con- 
floKP • rpi’ ^ following is a particular 
coral’^ Ae whole mas; was the flexible 
the tendr'T verrucosa, about the branches of which 
■ »»Lw'd J,T- '"‘""f ■ ‘■'Id 
niattcd with tb '”b'^’ tendrils were so embedded and 
SeHuXaria: <,r ' Ike twisted threads of 
cSflrTif TT “ “ *how that the pria- 
been dem 't*? '’J,'*'"®'' their growth since the egg-case had 
P “en “““ “ thi.%g-case a 
(t't»e/rS !'d * “ '“S'h. tome serpulw 
CM side of Th • '“"titletahle portion of 
“1 w '“a'” 'r'""'* “ ‘I*™ “e'tas ef «ley»- 
iZes. rf sS «f December' and Ihe 
appears to harp 1 reason may explain the long delay which 
embryo. But that iths” *1*^ ^ipement and escape of the 
lime appears from the fact thii '““"’■’'“‘‘e'l “ > "hort 
of the rock, exposed to th’o L 
developed in several wooU in ^°t 
advancement to shew th t *■' they had made sufficient 
season. be accomplished in due 
There are four slits at tl,.a ~ , 
attracted the notice of naturalfttr h t "^bich have 
not yet received a satisCo^tx^h; Lffin Z 
IS, that they serve to admit Jater^to th supposition 
case; but on trial I have found that t 
small quantity of sea-water at an earlv st ^ 
is fatal to life. Another supp^sWon ; i 
allow for the growth of the embryo bv i^^o d ^ 
of escape for any fluid that niicrh/,p ^ piovidmg a means 
space, and interfere with the growth Tth 
Their use is at least obscure as I b be enclosed young. 
cover any corresponding s ft S th^"' "" r 
S silt in the egg-case of its kindred 
