A Manual of the Sea-anemones Commonly Found on the English CoastJohn Van Voorst, 1856 - 123 Seiten |
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... close of a long day's ramble : it contains one large , wide - mouthed glass - bottle , about 3 inches in diameter , next two small bottles about 3 inches high , and next to these two more bottles 5 inches in height - all wide - mouthed ...
... close of a long day's ramble : it contains one large , wide - mouthed glass - bottle , about 3 inches in diameter , next two small bottles about 3 inches high , and next to these two more bottles 5 inches in height - all wide - mouthed ...
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... close to the water's edge , so that he too is fond of air , though not as much so as his neighbour , the “ common " anemone . Still lower , here under the shadow of an over- hanging rock , is a sheltered corner , and a bed of fine ...
... close to the water's edge , so that he too is fond of air , though not as much so as his neighbour , the “ common " anemone . Still lower , here under the shadow of an over- hanging rock , is a sheltered corner , and a bed of fine ...
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... close to the glass as you like . Here is a model of an Anemone , rough certainly , but sufficiently ac- curate for our purpose . That part of the tumbler which touches the table corresponds with the base of the live animal , the outside ...
... close to the glass as you like . Here is a model of an Anemone , rough certainly , but sufficiently ac- curate for our purpose . That part of the tumbler which touches the table corresponds with the base of the live animal , the outside ...
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... close to the margin of the body , which contain " spike - cases . " 1. Actinia mesembryanthemum , " The Common Sea - Anemone . " Skin soft , * Varieties . a . Brown . b . Olive - green . c . Striped with pea - green on an apple- green ...
... close to the margin of the body , which contain " spike - cases . " 1. Actinia mesembryanthemum , " The Common Sea - Anemone . " Skin soft , * Varieties . a . Brown . b . Olive - green . c . Striped with pea - green on an apple- green ...
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... close rooms and pestilential courts . They feed on the animalcules which abound in the sea - water , consequently , if we continually filter the water , although we may purify it from all decaying and refuse matter , we deprive our ...
... close rooms and pestilential courts . They feed on the animalcules which abound in the sea - water , consequently , if we continually filter the water , although we may purify it from all decaying and refuse matter , we deprive our ...
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Actinia bellis Actinia coriacea Actinia mesembryanthemum aerating anguicoma animalcules animals Anthea cereus anthos aurora base beads beautiful Bunodes Chapter Charybdis chisel Chromolith clavata colour common coral Cornwall crabs crowbar daisy diameter dianthus duated ECHINODERMS flower fragacea G. H. Lewes gemmacea genera genus glass Glaucous Gosse's Greek green habits hard words Helianthoids Hydra Ilfracombe inches John Van Voorst Latin lines living Lundy margaritifera margin means mollusc mones Morte-stone Natural History naturalist nivea North Devon objects observation oral disc orange organic bodies ovaries oxygen parasitica plants PLATE polyps possessing Radiates Rat Island reader receptacle ring rocks rosea round Sagartia sea-anemone sea-water sea-weed skin snowy soft species specific name specimens spike-cases stones Strawberry Anemone streaked sunflower-shaped tacles tank Tenby tentacles thallia thick-skinned tide troglodytes true zoophyte tubercles variety vegetable venusta Voorst warts Warts arranged Weymouth whilst white threads
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Seite 40 - Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget What thou among the leaves hast never known, The weariness, the fever, and the fret Here, where men sit and hear each other groan...
Seite 40 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore. There is society where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not man the less, but nature more...
Seite 89 - This is an assemblage of nearly related species, agreeing with one another in general structure and appearance more closely than they accord with other species. Thus the genus Rosa or rose includes plants which are obviously allied as regards their general character, their flower, and their fruit.
Seite 93 - No classification can be made unless the meaning of the • term species is defined. By species, then, are meant so many individuals as are presumed to have been formed at the creation of the world, and to have been perpetuated ever since.
Seite 87 - Exegi monumentum aere perennius regalique situ pyramidum altius, quod non imber edax, non Aquila impotens possit diruere aut innumerabilis annorum series et fuga temporum.
Seite 26 - ... an old ivory paper-knife, and a small net made by twisting a piece of strong wire into the shape of a circle with a tail to it, and fastening a bag of muslin round the edge of the ring. As to the hammer and chisel, these are indispensable. A great number of the...
Seite 54 - Disc flat, two or three times as broad as the body when the latter is at all lengthened. Tentacles very numerous, small and crowded horizontally on the outer edge of the disc.
Seite 70 - Common table-salt . . 3j ounces. Epsom salts .... J ounce. Chloride of magnesium 200 grains"!