The only poisonous colubrine snakes in the New World are the ring- snakes, the coral-snakes of the genus elaps, which are found from the extreme southern United States southward to the Argentine.

The surf breaks gently on some coral-reef, And sirens sweetly soothe one's slow despair?

The coral-builders laid their marvellous pile; Millions on millions wrought, till ages later Saw reared to light and air the circling isle.

In the crimson chalices thousands of coral-grains germ spontaneously, like a thousand fair sisters all under the same roof.

When he came to the tree, he killed all the wild beasts, cut down the palm-tree, loaded it upon the shoulders of the people, and the Sultan built a house of coral-wood.

In this way, those marvellous coral-reefs and coral-islands have been made.

"For the slave is the coral-insect of the South," said the voice within; "insignificant in himself, he rears a giant structurewhich will yet cause the wreck of the ship of state, should its keel grate too closely on that adamantine wall.

" A peasant girl of Venice was once given a beautiful coral-branch and some rare leaves and shells which her lover had gathered for her from the sea-depths.

We cannot forbear, with him, from quoting Montgomery's lines on the labors of the coral-worms, which modern science has enabled us to study in our parlors.

" To the coral-fishers of the Mediterranean, who seek the precious red coral, which grows firmly fixed to rocks at a depth of sixty to eighty fathoms, both the dredge and the trawl would be useless.

The gentle landward slope of the Reef and the channel between it and the shore are covered with a growth of the more branching lighter Corals, such as Sea-Fans, Coral-lines, etc., answering the same purpose as the intricate roots of the Mangrove-tree.

Flower-pot mould Danked and decayed the shaded roof; The porch was punk; the clapboards spanned With ruffled lichens gray or green; Red coral-moss was not aloof; And mid dry leaves green dead-man's-hand Groped toward that chapel in Mosby-land.

She's making a bed for herself in the coral-patch and she's not taking any more water.

From the most recent beds; from the upheaved coral-rocks of the West Indies, and the upheaved and faulted boulder clay and chalk of the Isle of Moen in Denmarkdownwards through all the strata, down to that very ancient one in which the best slates are found, this rule, I believe, stands true.

And in the water are myriads of spirits dwelling in crystal domes, in the coral-trees, and in the lovely shells.