CHAPTER XXI.

THE PHOSPHORESCENCE OF THE SEA.

Its Causes.--Noctiluca miliaris.--Phosphorescent Annelides and

Beroës.--Intense Phosphorescence of the Pyrosoma atlantica.

--Luminous Pholades.--The luminous Shark.--Phosphorescent Algæ.

--Citations from Byron, Coleridge, Crabbe, and Scott. 423

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