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Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore
·
Charles Kingsley
88
[Picture:
Plate
10:
Serpula
Contortuplicata
etc.]
Look,
again,
at
those
sea-slugs.
One,
some
three
inches
long,
of
a
bright
lemon-yellow,
clouded
with
purple;
another
of
a
dingy
grey;
{130a}
another
exquisite
little
creature
of
a
pearly
French
White,
{130b}
furred
all
over
the
back
with
what
seem
arms,
but
are
really
gills,
of
ringed
white
and
grey
and
black.
Put
that
yellow
one
into
water,
and
from
his
head,
above
the
eyes,
arise
two
serrated
horns,
while
from
the
after-part
of
his
back
springs
a
circular
Prince-of-Wales’s-feather
of
gills,—
they
are
almost
exactly
like
those
which
we
saw
just
now
in
the
white
Cucumaria.
Yes;
here
is
another
instance
of
the
same
custom
of
repetition.
The
Cucumaria
is
a
low
radiate
animal—
the
sea-slug
a
far
higher
mollusc;
and
every
organ
within
him
is
formed
on
a
different
type;
as
indeed
are
those
seemingly
identical
gills,
if
you
come
to
examine
them
under
the
microscope,
having
to
oxygenate
fluids
of
a
very
different
and
more
complicated
kind;
and,
moreover,
the
Cucumaria’s
gills
were
put
round
his
mouth,
the
Doris’s
feathers
round
the
other
extremity;
that
grey
Eolis’s,
again,
are
simple
clubs,
scattered
over
his
whole
back,
and
in
each
of
his
nudibranch
congeners
these
same
gills
take
some
new
and
fantastic
form;
in
Melibæa
those
clubs
are
covered
with
warts;
in
Scyllæa,
with
tufted
bouquets;
in
the
beautiful
Antiopa
they
are
transparent
bags;
and
in
many
other
English
species
they
take
every
conceivable
form
of
leaf,
tree,
flower,
and
branch,
bedecked
with
every
colour
of
the
rainbow,
as
you
may
see
them
depicted
in
Messrs.
Alder
and
Hancock’s
unrivalled
Monograph
on
the
Nudibranch
Mollusca.
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