At the same instant, and in every part, the arteries, like innumerable bees, are everywhere laying down layers of muscle, bones, teeth, and, in fact, like the coral zoophyte, building up a continent of life and matter; while the veins, equally busy, are carrying away the débris and refuse collected from where the zoophyte arteries are building,this refuse, in its turn, being conveyed to the liver, there to be converted into bile.

Enviable zoophytes, that live only to digest!who would not be of the brotherhood?" In another he wrote: "I seem to have lived years in the last five or six weeks, and to have grown suddenly old and cynical.

It was the first time that Elsley had ever seen one of those exquisite zoophytes which stud every rock and every tuft of weed.

No; all I meant was, that this little zoophyte lives by the same laws as you and I; and that he, and the sea-weeds, and so forth, teach us doctors certain little rules concerning life and death, which you will have a chance soon of seeing at work on the most grand and poetical, and indeed altogether tragic scale.

Sea Pens are termed locomotive zoophytes, and swim in the manner of fish.

I wish I was, like some worthy people I know, a mere human zoophyte, consisting of nothing but a mouth and a stomach.

"Only a rare zoophyte," said he at last, lifting his dripping visage, and gasping for breath; and then he dived again.