(APHRODITE ACULEATA.)
'For seas have ...
As well as earth, vines, roses, nettles, melons,
Mushrooms, pinks, gilliflowers, and many millions
Of other plants, more rare, more strange than these,
As very fishes living in the seas.'
1 THE SEA MOUSE (Aphrodite aculeata)
2 THE DORIS
3 YOUNG OF THE DORIS
4 EOLIS PAPILLOSA
XVII.
Beauteous stars also the sea contains, as numberless, though not so brilliant in appearance as those which stud the firmament of heaven; flowers, too, grow beneath the wave, and rival in loveliness the gems which adorn our fields and hedge-rows. Nay, more, like the land, the ocean owns its various grasses, its lemons, and cucumbers, its worms, slugs, and shelly snails, its hedgehogs, its birds, its ducks and geese (anatidæ), its dogs, its hares, and lastly its mice (aphroditæ.) The latter objects, despite their unprepossessing name, being in no wise less interesting than those above mentioned.