The Bookshelf for boys and girls Book of Wonders and Curious Things (1912)
University Society, New York · New York: University Society · leaf 203
A SEA-SLUG. the Sargassnm, speckled with pure white anddark brown, imitating the spots and patches onthe latter. The imitation leaves were olive-green, precisely like the real ones, with a fewdarker blotches to imitate the stains and decayedspots. Altogether, you can hardly help fancyingthat the… … A LITTLE CRAB FOUND ON THE SARGASSUM. But the sea-slug has been disguised as a plantfor a good reason. For the sea is full of hungryfishes, always roving about on the lookout forjust such a titbit as a sea-slug. The sea-slugtherefore has been colored and shaped like theseaweed it lives on, in order…
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