. The animal creation: a popular introduction to zoology. Zoology. ANTHOZOA. 49 admiration. Slowly the unsightly fabric swells, as though by imbibing the water in which it is immersed, and as it dilates to a larger and still larger size, assumes a transparency that it did not possess before. When fully expanded, little pits or cells appear upon its sm-face, and from each of these there issues forth a living flower, for <CU 1 nv .^ ^ V H 'if f 0 ^J-**' - -^5 r- c ^ . /. Fig. 32.—alcyox. such it seems, which gradually expanding till it has at- tained its full development, begins to fish for j
. The animal creation: a popular introduction to zoology. Zoology. ANTHOZOA. 49 admiration. Slowly the unsightly fabric swells, as though by imbibing the water in which it is immersed, and as it dilates to a larger and still larger size, assumes a transparency that it did not possess before. When fully expanded, little pits or cells appear upon its sm-face, and from each of these there issues forth a living flower, for <CU 1 nv .^ ^ V H 'if f 0 ^J-**' - -^5 r- c ^ . /. Fig. 32.—alcyox. such it seems, which gradually expanding till it has at- tained its full development, begins to fish for j^rey in the siuToimding M'ater by means of the petal-like tentacles placed around its mouth. The food thus obtained, having been conveyed into the stomach of the Polype that caught it, and digested there, is absorbed into the D. 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 Jones, Thomas Rymer, 1810-1880. London : Society for Promoting Knowledge
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