Dwellers of the sea and Dwellers of the sea and shore dwellersofseasho00crow Year: 1935 290 D'wellcrs of the Sea and Shore long, and without branches. Still others are unbranched spirals, several feet in height. These are sometimes known as sea whips. In all Gorgonias the horny axis Is covered with a layer of living polyps so closely united that they form a solid sheet of animal matter. This contains numerous small spicules of carbonate of lime, giving it a barklike, or crusty, appearance. SPICULES OF GORGONIA. (GREATLY ENLARGED.) The sea pens are so named because many of them look very mu
Dwellers of the sea and Dwellers of the sea and shore dwellersofseasho00crow Year: 1935 290 D'wellcrs of the Sea and Shore long, and without branches. Still others are unbranched spirals, several feet in height. These are sometimes known as sea whips. In all Gorgonias the horny axis Is covered with a layer of living polyps so closely united that they form a solid sheet of animal matter. This contains numerous small spicules of carbonate of lime, giving it a barklike, or crusty, appearance. SPICULES OF GORGONIA. (GREATLY ENLARGED.) The sea pens are so named because many of them look very much like the quill feathers that are used for pens. Some of the species resemble ostrich plumes. The polyps are arranged along the upper part of the lateral branches, separate from one another. The cen- tral axis is naked below, and this part is burled in the sand. Some sea pens are capable of great expansion
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