Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885 · London : John Churchill · leaf 571
ch contains nosoHtary species, a characteristic example is found in theAlcyonium digitatum of our coasts, which is commonly knownunder the name of dead-mans toes, or sea-paps. When aspecimen of this is first torn from the rock to which ithas attached itself, it contracts into an unshapely… … Spicules of Alcyonium and Gorgonia. being immersed for a little time in a jar of sea-water, the massswells-out again, and from every one of these depressions an eight-armed polype isFi&. 230. protruded, which resem- bles a flower of exquisitebeauty and perfect sym-metry. In specimens re-cently…
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