. The animal life of our seashore. With special reference to the New Jersey coast and the southern shore of Long Island. Marine animals. SQUIRTS, POLYPS, AND JELLY-FISHES. 69 of favoring conditions prevents the development of these interesting animals, which only at com- paratively rare intervals may be picked up adhering to sheltered pieces of timber or to rocks that have been cast into the eea. One of the species occur- ring with us is of about the size of a carrot or a turnip [Actinia rapiformis), of a pink or light flesh color, and with a compound cluster of coarse ten-. Anemone in differe
. The animal life of our seashore. With special reference to the New Jersey coast and the southern shore of Long Island. Marine animals. SQUIRTS, POLYPS, AND JELLY-FISHES. 69 of favoring conditions prevents the development of these interesting animals, which only at com- paratively rare intervals may be picked up adhering to sheltered pieces of timber or to rocks that have been cast into the eea. One of the species occur- ring with us is of about the size of a carrot or a turnip [Actinia rapiformis), of a pink or light flesh color, and with a compound cluster of coarse ten-. Anemone in different stages of extension (after Agasaiz), tacles. The bands that are seen to run up and down and across the body are the muscular bundles which promote expansion or contraction on the part of the animal. When cast up by the waves the animal frequently draws itself into a more or less globular form, which has been likened to that of an onion or a turnip. A m^uch more delicate, and apparently rarer, species is the common form of. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Heilprin, Angelo, 1853-1907. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company
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