THE LASSO - THIS) U 'AA'S. 
covering the sea for miles and miles, so that a 
may sail through them during many days, the 
watching their transparent domes by day, and L- 
illuminated by the light of their phosphorescence by 
night. Now as tiny jelly-bells, floating liki ning 
specks by millions in some quiet bay, and breaking into 
light as they arc dashed upon the beach. Or again 
in the form of horny animal-trees often two or three 
feet in height, waving their gracefully arched branclu is 
over the rocks in the deep water, or creeping like 
delicate threads over shells and stones and seaweed on 
the shore, where they are often mistaken for plants. 
There is scarcely a nook or cranny in the bed of 
the ocean where some of these tree- like forms are 
not to be found, associated with the beautiful sea- 
anemones, with their brilliant colours of emerald 
green, crimson, glowing purple, and vivid oral 
which belong to this same division, as does also the 
living coral nestling in the bosom of the warm Medi- 
terranean Sea, or struggling boldly against the w, 
of the Pacific, as branch after branch is added t« 
stem by the constant labours of the tiny jelly-polyps 
spreading their gaily coloured tentacles out ot every 
cup of the coral tree. 
All these beautiful creatines are " laSSO-thrW 
Scientific men call them Ccelenterata or u h< 
animals," because of the large Cavity witl 
bodies, and divide them Into Ji . 
animals) and A ray-like animals, such 
the anemone), but for us it is sufficient to kn 
with very few exceptions, they all 
means of the lasso, and we cau pass on b 
something of how they pass then - 
