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Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore
·
Charles Kingsley
62
A
thick,
dirty,
slimy
worm,
without
head
or
tail,
form
or
colour.
A
slug
has
more
artistic
beauty
about
him.
Be
it
so.
At
home
in
the
aquarium
(where,
alas!
he
will
live
but
for
a
day
or
two,
under
the
new
irritation
of
light)
he
will
make
a
very
different
figure.
That
is
one
of
the
rarest
of
British
sea-animals,
Peachia
hastata
(Pl.
XII.
Fig.
1),
which
differs
from
most
other
British
Actiniæ
in
this,
that
instead
of
having
like
them
a
walking
disc,
it
has
a
free
open
lower
end,
with
which
(I
know
not
how)
it
buries
itself
upright
in
the
sand,
with
its
mouth
just
above
the
surface.
The
figure
on
the
left
of
the
plate
represents
a
curious
cluster
of
papillæ
which
project
from
one
side
of
the
mouth,
and
are
the
opening
of
the
oviduct.
But
his
value
consists,
not
merely
in
his
beauty
(though
that,
really,
is
not
small),
but
in
his
belonging
to
what
the
long
word-makers
call
an
“interosculant”
group,—
a
party
of
genera
and
species
which
connect
families
scientifically
far
apart,
filling
up
a
fresh
link
in
the
great
chain,
or
rather
the
great
network,
of
zoological
classification.
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