. Popular history of the aquarium of marine and fresh-water animals and plants . TER HI, SEA-FEATHERS, SEA-PENS, AND SEA-FROTH,—PENNATULA PHOSPHOREA.—VIRGULARIA MIRABILIS.—PAVONARIA QUADRANGULARIS.—GORGONIAVERRUCOSA.—kingfishers NEST OR MERMAIDS GLOVES.—ALCTONIUMDIGITATUM.—ALCYONIDIUM HIRSUTUM.—INFUSORIA AND FORAMINIFERA, The three families—TennatididcBy Gorgoniadce, Alcyoniadxe—are included by Gosse in the sub-order Alcyonaria. Thefamily of Alci/oniadcej which contains Alcijonium digitatnm,of which we shall speak presently, appears to partake muchof the nature of Sponge, only that the fleshy
. Popular history of the aquarium of marine and fresh-water animals and plants . TER HI, SEA-FEATHERS, SEA-PENS, AND SEA-FROTH,—PENNATULA PHOSPHOREA.—VIRGULARIA MIRABILIS.—PAVONARIA QUADRANGULARIS.—GORGONIAVERRUCOSA.—kingfishers NEST OR MERMAIDS GLOVES.—ALCTONIUMDIGITATUM.—ALCYONIDIUM HIRSUTUM.—INFUSORIA AND FORAMINIFERA, The three families—TennatididcBy Gorgoniadce, Alcyoniadxe—are included by Gosse in the sub-order Alcyonaria. Thefamily of Alci/oniadcej which contains Alcijonium digitatnm,of which we shall speak presently, appears to partake muchof the nature of Sponge, only that the fleshy masses ofwhich it is composed, send forth distinct and beautifulpolypi. It differs from the other two families, Tennatididceand Gorgoniadce, in not having, like them, a central axis; butinstead of that axis, the flesh contains scattered calcareousspicula, similar to those Sponges. In the Hydroid Zoophytes, it was observed that the hornyskeleton formed, as it were, a case, or external support to V ^>T ?^ |^^»^- ^ ^^.
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