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Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore
·
Charles Kingsley
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For
a
further
description
of
this
largest
and
handsomest
of
our
Hydroid
Polypes,
I
must
refer
you
to
Johnston,
or,
failing
him,
to
Landsborough;
and
go
on,
to
beg
you
not
to
despise
those
pink,
or
grey,
or
white
lumps
of
jelly,
which
will
expand
in
salt
water
into
exquisite
sea-anemones,
of
quite
different
forms
from
any
which
we
have
found
along
the
rocks.
One
of
them
will
certainly
be
the
Dianthus,
{170}
which
will
open
into
a
furbelowed
flower,
furred
with
innumerable
delicate
tentacula;
and
in
the
centre
a
mouth
of
the
most
delicate
orange,
the
size
of
the
whole
animal
being
perhaps
eight
inches
high
and
five
across.
Perhaps
it
will
be
of
a
satiny
grey,
perhaps
pale
rose,
perhaps
pure
white;
whatever
its
colour,
it
is
the
very
maiden
queen
of
all
the
beautiful
tribe,
and
one
of
the
loveliest
gems
with
which
it
has
pleased
God
to
bedeck
this
lower
world.
[Picture:
Plate
7:
Echinus
Miliaris
etc.]
These
and
much
more
you
will
find
on
the
scallops,
or
even
more
plentifully
on
any
lump
of
ancient
oysters;
and
if
you
do
not
dredge,
it
would
be
well
worth
your
while
to
make
interest
with
the
fish-monger
for
a
few
oyster
lumps,
put
into
water
the
moment
they
are
taken
out
of
the
trawl.
Divide
them
carefully,
clear
out
the
oysters
with
a
knife,
and
put
the
shells
into
your
aquarium,
and
you
will
find
that
an
oyster
at
home
is
a
very
different
thing
from
an
oyster
on
a
stall.
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