MAKE A MEME View Large Image Devonshire coast (Page 205) (5981275544).jpg ZOOPHYTES 205 <br> one of the most curious of our native zoophytes The <br> specimens are particularly fine ; the cells tenanted <br> with healthy polypes in great numbers protruding <br> their ...
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Keywords: A naturalist's rambles on the Devonshire coast (Page 205) (5981275544).jpg ZOOPHYTES 205 <br> one of the most curious of our native zoophytes The <br> specimens are particularly fine ; the cells tenanted <br> with healthy polypes in great numbers protruding <br> their crystal stars of tentacles and covered with scores <br> of birds' heads nodding to and fro their bald heads <br> like so many old men sleeping at church and opening <br> and shutting their frightfully gaping jaws like snap- <br> ping turtles <br> Up the stem of one of these Bird's head Corallines <br> a colony of Pedicellina Belgica has entwined its <br> creeping clinging roots and is displaying its clubbed <br> polypes with unfolded tentacles in every direction <br> This is a very common species in our rock-pools <br> parasitic on many sea-weeds and calcareous polypes <br> The most abundant thing of all is Crisia actdeata <br> a delicate and pretty species easily recognised by its <br> long slender spine springing from the margin of every <br> cell The multitude of these spines gives a peculiar <br> lightness to the little shrubs in which this species <br> delights to grow <br> Several other species are parasitic on the Crisia I <br> detect the curious tiny snake-heads of Anguinaria <br> spatiilata entwined about its stems A stalk of <br> Bowerbankia imhricata also is here studded with <br> little aggregations of cells in dense clusters set on the <br> slender thread-like stem at wide intervals And a few <br> of the pitcher-like cells of that singular zoophyte <br> Beania mirahilis set with hooked prickles I find ; <br> in one of which I can see the polype snugly packed <br> though I cannot get him to display his beauties out- <br> side his door <br> Besides all these there are at least two kinds of 29378755 93094 42528 Page 205 Text http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/29378755 1853 10 5962/bhl title 42528 Gosse Philip Henry; Hullmandel Walton NameFound Anguinaria NameConfirmed Anguinaria NameBankID 4070134 NameFound Beania NameConfirmed Beania EOLID 62663 NameBankID 2576122 NameFound Bowerbankia NameConfirmed Bowerbankia EOLID 13135243 NameBankID 2576077 NameFound Crisia NameConfirmed Crisia EOLID 13135269 NameBankID 2576034 NameFound Pedicellina NameConfirmed Pedicellina EOLID 97986 NameBankID 423510 Biodiversity Heritage Library A naturalist's rambles on the Devonshire coast Information field Flickr tags and travel Devon England Great Britain Marine animals Smithsonian Institution Libraries SIL bhl page 29378755 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/29378755 taxonomy binomial Cellularia avicularia devon england great britain sil taxonomy binomial cellularia avicularia Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2011-07-27 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/5981275544 2015-09-11 06 00 29 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 Cellarioidea A naturalist's rambles on the Devonshire coast Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script
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