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Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore
·
Charles Kingsley
52
Nay,
reader,
I
am
here
to
show
you
what
can
be
seen:
but
as
for
telling
you
what
can
be
known,
much
more
what
cannot,
I
decline;
and
refer
you
to
Johnson’s
“Zoophytes,”
wherein
you
will
find
that
several
species
of
polypes
carry
these
same
birds’
heads:
but
whether
they
be
parts
of
the
polype,
and
of
what
use
they
are,
no
man
living
knoweth.
Next,
what
are
the
striped
pears?
They
are
sea-anemones,
and
of
a
species
only
lately
well
known,
Sagartia
viduata,
the
snake-locked
anemone
(Pl.
V.
Fig.
3
{74}).
They
have
been
washed
off
the
loose
stones
to
which
they
usually
adhere
by
the
pitiless
roll
of
the
ground-swell;
however,
they
are
not
so
far
gone,
but
that
if
you
take
one
of
them
home,
and
put
it
in
a
jar
of
water,
it
will
expand
into
a
delicate
compound
flower,
which
can
neither
be
described
nor
painted,
of
long
pellucid
tentacles,
hanging
like
a
thin
bluish
cloud
over
a
disk
of
mottled
brown
and
grey.
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