Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . Fig. 211. Alcyoniclicm. means of which the mussel attaches itself to therock. To preserve these little animals in a driedstate/they should be plunged into fresh water,which kills them at once with the arms may then be dried by exposure to the air,and are beautiful little objects. Specimens of theCommon^Sun-star (Solaster papposa), with twelveor more rays, are sometimes cast upon the beachatj Hastings, and less commonly the Egg-urchin 220 HARDWICKES S CIEN C E - G OSSIP
Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . Fig. 211. Alcyoniclicm. means of which the mussel attaches itself to therock. To preserve these little animals in a driedstate/they should be plunged into fresh water,which kills them at once with the arms may then be dried by exposure to the air,and are beautiful little objects. Specimens of theCommon^Sun-star (Solaster papposa), with twelveor more rays, are sometimes cast upon the beachatj Hastings, and less commonly the Egg-urchin 220 HARDWICKES S CIEN C E - G OSSIP. [Oct. 1, 1867. (Echinus sphsera). Though both of them aredesignated common, they are certainly neither ofthem common, according to our experience, in thelocality alluded to. Of Zoophytes and Polyzoa, dead specimens areplentiful enough. There is the Oaten Pipe Coralline(Tubularia indivisa), and the Branched Pipe Coral-line (see Science-Gossip, 1865, page 177); still morecommonly the Sickle Coralline (Plumularia falcata),and the Sea Eir (Sertularia abietina), both of whichare figured in a former number (Aug
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