Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . Fig. 211. Eggs of Cuttle-fish. like bunches of black grapes (6g. 211), of the eggsof the cuttle-fish, ot the same kindred as theOctopus, so graphically described by Mr. J. K. Lordin a former number (1865, page 50), and the originalof the Devil-fish of Victor Hugos Toilers ofthe Sea. Apropos of the cuttle-fish, the whiteoblong plates commonly called cuttle-fish bone, Oct. 1, 1S67.] HARDWICKES SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 219 which constitute the solid framework of the Cuttle(Sepia officinalis), a
Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . Fig. 211. Eggs of Cuttle-fish. like bunches of black grapes (6g. 211), of the eggsof the cuttle-fish, ot the same kindred as theOctopus, so graphically described by Mr. J. K. Lordin a former number (1865, page 50), and the originalof the Devil-fish of Victor Hugos Toilers ofthe Sea. Apropos of the cuttle-fish, the whiteoblong plates commonly called cuttle-fish bone, Oct. 1, 1S67.] HARDWICKES SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 219 which constitute the solid framework of the Cuttle(Sepia officinalis), and the transparent plates of theCalamary (Loligo vulgaris), sometimes called Sea-pen, will occasionally be seen on the beach nearthe fishermans quarter. The dead cuttle-fish maythemselves be seen there, but often more offensiveto the nose than pleasing to the eye. The common Star-fish, or Five Fingers(Uraster rubens), is too well known on the beachto need description, and our woodcut will be a suf-ficient introduction to those who stay at home (). A very pretty little star, not exceeding an. Fig. 212. Five Fingers. inch in diameter, may be collected by hundreds atlow water at one spot at Hastings, and we failed tofind them anywhere else. This little animal is the sc&m^
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