. The sea-beach at ebb-tide : a guide to the study of the seaweeds and the lower animal life found between tidemarks . ts arising separately in two trans-verse rows; tubes thin, transparent, flexible,and hung with foreign substances ; attachedalong the whole length. GENUS Ampliitrite A. ornata. Twelve to fifteen incheslong; flesh-color, reddish, or brown; threepairs of red plume-like gills and numerousflesh-colored tentacles around the anteriorend; tentacles constantly in motion and sometimes extended eight or ten inches; tubes a quarter of an inch or more in diameter, and firm, be-ing compose
. The sea-beach at ebb-tide : a guide to the study of the seaweeds and the lower animal life found between tidemarks . ts arising separately in two trans-verse rows; tubes thin, transparent, flexible,and hung with foreign substances ; attachedalong the whole length. GENUS Ampliitrite A. ornata. Twelve to fifteen incheslong; flesh-color, reddish, or brown; threepairs of red plume-like gills and numerousflesh-colored tentacles around the anteriorend; tentacles constantly in motion and sometimes extended eight or ten inches; tubes a quarter of an inch or more in diameter, and firm, be-ing composed of sand and mud. It is found under stones hi mud, gravel, and sand at low-water mark from Cape Cod to New Jersey, often associated with Cirratulus grandis. GENERA Poly cirrus,Ch cetobranchus P. eximius, C. sanguineus. These are two species of bright-red, fragile worms, found understones, in mud. They do notform tubes. The first is a smallworm, the second twelve tofifteen inches long. Both havelong, crowded tentacles extend-ing in every direction and dis-tended as the blood flows intothem. C. sanguineus has ten-. Amphitrite ornata.
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