Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 439
am-eter, is a coiled thread about twenty times thelength of the capsule and at its base armed withsharp spines, as shown in Fig. 3. When a tenta-cle is touched the threads are shot forth, and it isbelieved that a poison is at the same time injectedinto the wound. Among these little plant-animals… … FIG. 5. ANIMAL-PLANT AND REAL SEAWEED.The one to the left is the animal; the one to the right is vegetable.Both seem to have similar pods. Spores come from vegetable whileanimal eggs are discharged from the many pods to the left. As a rule, these colonies are tiny things, but polyp colony will…
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