$ jj| N A T U R A t Ml |.S'T- C R Y
tJie-dc^oniuin an<J the Coralline. The dcyoniun* fe/stf a- toddle
s a to e betwixt fhe( hdtfetteeotts ’aflA horny fiibflumtees j®i& fi^ftance
fieihy, and fbttfetftoe& hard eve® to caitifegiilous}' Ih^ltefs arttmes;
fometimes tubular f generally inhabited by' ammdcMeS.: Dr. ScMpf-
fer hefore-mentiofied difcovefed one ©f a' euriofcs maite dredged up
k Falmouth Harbour, September j 8,- i& j g .The- Uloyonium was
brown and thin, and was the ^rsft^ iO whiGh the 'animals had
placed themfelves in ranks, each in a rofe-like fhape, making a
kiftd of border round the ftem of an old large/#«asv The haftlfal
fixe of fhe flowers (of which there are three placed' fide by fide)
may be feen Plate xxv. Fig. i ; one is magnified, as Fig. n ; each
rofc had frbm five to twelve, but more generally eight leaves, each
leaf dii aperture iii it, (as at ay Fig. ii.). whfeh isifuppofed to ‘be a
mouth in < the centre there is an opening larger than the • reft,
within which, when the inelofed animal was alive, fdmethirig' like
fibres were perceived to move j whether this Creature extends thofe
fibres to lay hold 6f the food which the waves—throw in its way,
muft be referred to future enquiry “. Somewhat different" fiord - this,
thfoUgh o f Che feme tribe, was an atcydnium which I ‘Tqttna1 dfl'a
ledge called Careg-killas, in Mount’s Bay, where, as-I was' tumbling*
ever the moveable Cocks, I found one coated with a tran {parent,
callous fubftance, fpread dii- fbme rocks about- fix- inches,^ id bbu
near two fee| fquare at a medium: the coating was about the
fixth of an inch thick; the ground was dark 'green ; the flowers
eonfifted of ten obtufe petals, which were o f a yiykryeHo^
green; each petal was in two placed pierced of the field (as thd
heralds term it ) ; that is, had two ipecks in each (mthis difiering
from the foregoing) which tranfinitted„the*cblom c&rthe
floWers and ground together made fo pretty I piece of tape'ftry, that
one might be furprifed to find fuchcolouring and wprkffianfhip
hid,- as it were induflrioufly, under a rock; but the - workshop
nature are every where well finifhed, and cannot be otherwife than
exa£t and beautiful in their degree. Part of this-coating^ Withits
rdfes in their natural fize, may be feen Plate xxv. Fig. hi. magnified,
Fig; iv. Searching a little further I found a like congelation
on another rock ; the ground of this was o f a Warm brown colour
(fuch as the painters call Cologne earth); the petals df the flowers
were fharp pointed, not always of the feme number, but from fix
to twelve; the flowers were radiated, irregular in fhape, as may be
feen Pl. xxv. F. v. magnified, F. vi. not pierced as in the foregoing,
quite yellow, and on the brown ground looking like fo many afte-
“ It was fliewn me the day after it was dredg- part II. 1756, page 451, and is fuppofed to be a
ed, and from a drawing then made, publilhed in non-defcript.
the Philofophical TraniaUions,' vol. XXXIX.
rifks