Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . the Infirmary, when the water is very low,as at new and full moon, a few Daisy Anemones(Sagartia bellis) may be seen, with an occasional—very occasional— crass, or Dahlia Wartlet (Tealiacrassicomis). To see them is one thing, but to getthem, if required for an aquarium, is another. Thisapplies particularly to the Daisy Anemone, which ofall others is the most desirable for a small hostess had never seen such creatures until weestablished a temporary tank in a hand-basin
Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . the Infirmary, when the water is very low,as at new and full moon, a few Daisy Anemones(Sagartia bellis) may be seen, with an occasional—very occasional— crass, or Dahlia Wartlet (Tealiacrassicomis). To see them is one thing, but to getthem, if required for an aquarium, is another. Thisapplies particularly to the Daisy Anemone, which ofall others is the most desirable for a small hostess had never seen such creatures until weestablished a temporary tank in a hand-basin fortheir reception; and her brother, although seventeenyears resident, had neither seen nor heard of such things before. Well, we have all of us a world ofour own, and theirs had certainly not the sameorbit. Of Molluscs, thousands of mussels are attached tothe rocks, and the Dog-whelk (Purpura lapillus)crawls amongst the seaweed. The conical shells ofthe Limpet (Patella vulgata) are almost as numerous(fig. 215), and the little Yellow Perriwinkle (Lit-torina littoralis) is quite at home amongst the sea-. Fig. 215. Limpet. wrack. The common shells of the beach are con-fined to a few species, such as the Scallop (Pecten
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