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Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore
·
Charles Kingsley
51
[Picture:
Plate
1:
Flustra
Lineata
etc.]
So
much
have
we
seen
on
one
little
shell.
But
there
is
more
to
see
close
to
it.
Those
yellow
plants
which
I
likened
to
squirrels’
tails
and
lobsters’
horns,
and
what
not,
are
zoophytes
of
different
kinds.
Here
is
Sertularia
argentea
(true
squirrel’s
tail);
here,
S.
filicula,
as
delicate
as
tangled
threads
of
glass;
here,
abietina;
here,
rosacea.
The
lobsters’
horns
are
Antennaria
antennina;
and
mingled
with
them
are
Plumulariæ,
always
to
be
distinguished
from
Sertulariæ
by
polypes
growing
on
one
side
of
the
branch,
and
not
on
both.
Here
is
falcata,
with
its
roots
twisted
round
a
sea-weed.
Here
is
cristata,
on
the
same
weed;
and
here
is
a
piece
of
the
beautiful
myriophyllum,
which
has
been
battered
in
its
long
journey
out
of
the
deep
water
about
the
ore
rock.
For
all
these
you
must
consult
Johnson’s
“Zoophytes,”
and
for
a
dozen
smaller
species,
which
you
would
probably
find
tangled
among
them,
or
parasitic
on
the
sea-weed.
Here
are
Flustræ,
or
sea-mats.
This,
which
smells
very
like
Verbena,
is
Flustra
coriacea
(Pl.
I.
Fig.
2).
That
scurf
on
the
frond
of
ore-weed
is
F.
lineata
(Pl.
Fig.
1).
The
glass
bells
twined
about
this
Sertularia
are
Campanularia
syringa
(Pl.
I.
Fig.
9);
and
here
is
a
tiny
plant
of
Cellularia
ciliata
(Pl.
I.
Fig.
8).
Look
at
it
through
the
field-glass;
for
it
is
truly
wonderful.
Each
polype
cell
is
edged
with
whip-like
spines,
and
on
the
back
of
some
of
them
is—
what
is
it,
but
a
live
vulture’s
head,
snapping
and
snapping—
what
for?
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