The animal life of our seashore With special reference to the New Jersey coast and the southern shore of Long Island . BOTRYLLUS. Sea-pork (Amoroeciuin). compound chains, measuring as much as a foot inlength, of perfectly transparent individuals, some-times cover the sea over a vast expanse. Another,the Pyrosoma, a much rarer form in this region, ishighly phosphorescent, and lays just claim to beingconsidered one of the lamps of the sea. POLYPS. The same unsightly sticks of timber that offerrefuge to the squirts will probably also be foundto harbor quantities of the delicate feathery tuftswhic
The animal life of our seashore With special reference to the New Jersey coast and the southern shore of Long Island . BOTRYLLUS. Sea-pork (Amoroeciuin). compound chains, measuring as much as a foot inlength, of perfectly transparent individuals, some-times cover the sea over a vast expanse. Another,the Pyrosoma, a much rarer form in this region, ishighly phosphorescent, and lays just claim to beingconsidered one of the lamps of the sea. POLYPS. The same unsightly sticks of timber that offerrefuge to the squirts will probably also be foundto harbor quantities of the delicate feathery tuftswhich are almost everywhere scattered over thebeach, and which in the popular mind are associ-ated in structure with the sea-weed, a term thathas much to answer for in receiving under its winga multitude of objects that do not belong feathery tufts, which are familiar to many
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