. A contribution to American thalassography; three cruises of the United States Coast and geodetic survey steamer "Blake," in the Gulf of Mexico, in the Caribbean Sea, and along the Atlantic coast of the United States, from 1877 to 1800. Blake (Ship); Marine animals -- Atlantic Ocean; Marine sediments; Ocean. Fi<r. 539. Fangophilina subniersa. |^.. Hynlonema horeale is Stylorhiza sfipitata. (Fig. 540.) Frag- ments and moderately complete specimens of Cladorhiza (Fig. 541) were not uncommon in the deeper dredgings of the " ; They are sponges with a long stem ending
. A contribution to American thalassography; three cruises of the United States Coast and geodetic survey steamer "Blake," in the Gulf of Mexico, in the Caribbean Sea, and along the Atlantic coast of the United States, from 1877 to 1800. Blake (Ship); Marine animals -- Atlantic Ocean; Marine sediments; Ocean. Fi<r. 539. Fangophilina subniersa. |^.. Hynlonema horeale is Stylorhiza sfipitata. (Fig. 540.) Frag- ments and moderately complete specimens of Cladorhiza (Fig. 541) were not uncommon in the deeper dredgings of the " ; They are sponges with a long stem ending in rami- fying roots deeply sunk in the mud. The stem has nodes with four to six club-shaped appendages. As Thomson has noticed, they evidently often cover, like bushes, extensive tracts of the bottom. Among the Monactinellidiie we may men- tion Rhizochalina, which grows up between masses of coral and tubes of annelids, so as to be freely washed by water; also a very Fig. 540. — styiorhka graceful branching form, Pliakellia 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 Agassiz, Alexander, 1835-1910; U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. Boston Houghton, Mifflin
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