. Chambers's encyclopedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people. 2e, along the upper margins ofwhich the polype-cells are ranged. The wholeform somewhat resembles a quill, so that the popu-lar name Sea Pen is very often given to thesez(»oi)hytes. One species, P. phosphorea, is commonon the northern jjarts of the British coast. It isfrom two tit four inches in length, of a purplish-redcolour, and like many—perhajis all—of the otherspecies, is sometimes brilliantly phosi)horescent,emitting flashes of light when disturbed, but ceasingto be luminous on relapsing into quiescence. Thes
. Chambers's encyclopedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people. 2e, along the upper margins ofwhich the polype-cells are ranged. The wholeform somewhat resembles a quill, so that the popu-lar name Sea Pen is very often given to thesez(»oi)hytes. One species, P. phosphorea, is commonon the northern jjarts of the British coast. It isfrom two tit four inches in length, of a purplish-redcolour, and like many—perhajis all—of the otherspecies, is sometimes brilliantly phosi)horescent,emitting flashes of light when disturbed, but ceasingto be luminous on relapsing into quiescence. Thestalk is hollow in the centre, and the bone whichit contains—and which is composed of phosjjhateand carbonate of lime, like the bones of tho verte-brate animals—is a very remarkable part of ita PENNSYLVANIA. structure, not cxtciidinj; the whole length of thestalk, slender, strni,u:ht, and ])erfectly sinn>le, hut hcnthackwards at each end into a hook. (Ulier speciesare found in the Meiliterranean and other seas, someof them more pen-like than even the British Iennatula (Vii-gularia 7inralilis). Nearly allied to the pennatuloe is another genus ofextremely beautiful zoophytes, Virijularia, rankedwith them in the family Pcnfiatnlidw^ and sometimesreceiving; the popular name Sea Rush. One species,V. rnirabilis, is found on the British coasts. PENNSYLVANIA, one of the thirteen originalStates of the United States of America, and thesecond in population, is situated between 39^ 43 and42 15 N. hit. and 74 42 and 80 35 W. long., jindis hounded on the N. by Luke Erie and N. York, E. byN. York and N. Jersey, from ^vhich it is scjiarated bythe river Delaware, S. by Delaware, Maryland, andW. Virginia, and \V. by W. Virginia and Ohio. It isabout 310 miles in length and 160 miles in breadth,is divided into 66 counties, and contains an area of46,000 square miles, or 29,440,000 acres. P. isdivided near the middle by the Alleghany Mountainsinto an eastern and western region. The
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