Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore
Charles Kingsley2C. KINGSLEY. BIDEFORD, April 24, 1855. The basis of this little book was an Article which appeared in the North British Review for November 1854. BEYOND the shadow of the ship, I watch’d the water snakes: They moved in tracks of shining white, And when they rear’d, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. O happy living things! no tongue Their beauty might declare: A spring of love gush’d from my heart, And I bless’d them unware. COLERIDGE’S Ancient Mariner. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. WOOD ENGRAVINGS. FIG. PAGE 1. Nymphon Abyssorum, NORMAN 81 2. Caprella spinosissima, NORMAN 83 3. Pentacrinus asteria, LINNÆUS 85 COLOURED PLATES. PLATE 1. 1. FLUSTRA LINEATA; (a) enlarged with polypes 73 protruding. 2. FLUSTRA FOLIACEA. 3. VALKERIA CUSCUTA; (a) natural size; (b) two tentacles; (c) tentacles bent inwards; (d) enlarged, showing the gradual eversion of the animal. 4. CRISIA DENTICULATA; (a) natural size. 5. GEMELLARIA LORIOATA; (a) natural size. 6. SERTULARIA ROSEA; (a) natural size. 7. CELLULARIA CILIATA; (a) natural size; (b) one of the bird’s heads; (c) cell and bird’s head, much enlarged. 8. CAMPANULARIA SYRINGA; (a) natural size. 9. CAMPANULARIA VOLUBILIS, enlarged. 10. SERIALARIA LENDIGERA. 11. NOTAMIA BURSARIA; (a) natural size; (b) two pairs of polype cells with the tobacco pipe appendages 2. 1. CARDIUM RUSTICUM, (TUBERCULATUM). 2. PAGURUS 65 BERNHARDI, in a Periwinkle Shell 3. 1. NEMERTIES BORLASII. 2. SABELLA? 3. 136 Sand-tube of TEREBELLA CONCHILEGA (See Plate 8) 4. 1. SYNAPTA DIGITATA; (a) Ditto separating and 109 throwing out capsuliferous threads. 2. THALASSIMA NEPTUNI 5. 1. BALANOPHYLLEA REGIA, expanded; (a) Ditto, 117 contracted; (b) Ditto coral; (c) Ditto, tentacle enlarged; 2. CARYOPHYLLEA SMITHII partly expanded; (a) Ditto, section of bony plates; (b) Ditto, tentacle. 3. SAGARTIA ANGUICOMA closed; (a) Ditto, basal disc showing radiating septa. 4. SYNAPTA DIGITATA (See Plate 4); (a, b) Ditto, fingered tentacles enlarged; (c) Ditto, Spiculæ; (d) Ditto, anchor lying on its transparent anchor-plate. 5. S. VITTATA? perforated anchor-plate; (a) Spicula 6. 1. ACTINIA MESEMBRYANTHEMUM, partially expanded; 135 (a) Ditto, closed. 2.