Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 438
fish are swimming about near the parent stem. Theone in the panel is the giant, being more than six feet tali. ists, who at one time called them zoophytes, aGreek word meaning animal-plants. This waswhen the creatures were thought to be plants withextraordinary animal characteristics, but on… … FIG. 4. THE STONE SKELETON OF THE REAL PLANTTO THE LEFT.The spray that resembles a sprig of forsythia is an animal—one of thehorn corals. The blossoms along the stems are the individualpolyps. In the natural histories you will find theseplaced under the branch of the animal kingdomcalled…
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