A vast quantity of small cups and paterae were made by this means in patterns which bear considerable resemblance to the surfaces of madrepores.

There are beautifully branching trees of madrepores, whose prongs are from one to two feet in length, and sometimes curiously interlaced.

One need only glance at the photographs of osmotic productions to recognize the forms of madrepore, fungus, alga, and shell.

In one of the Maldive islands a coral reef, which, within a few years, existed on an islet bearing cocoa-nut trees, was found by Lieutenant Prentice, "entirely covered with live coral and madrepore."

"The wild —— —— waste their fragrant stores In leafy islands walled with madrepores And lapped in Orient seas, When all their feathery palms toss, plume-like, in the breeze."