A Manual of the Sea-anemones Commonly Found on the English CoastJohn Van Voorst, 1856 - 123 Seiten |
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... line of the Welsh Mountains . Yesterday a heavy ground - sea was surging in from the Atlantic , but now a scarcely perceptible rise and fall of the waveless tide is swirling among the distant peaks of rock , and playing with the sea ...
... line of the Welsh Mountains . Yesterday a heavy ground - sea was surging in from the Atlantic , but now a scarcely perceptible rise and fall of the waveless tide is swirling among the distant peaks of rock , and playing with the sea ...
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... line its margin , then the delicately- lobed , waving foliage of the green laver , and beyond the dark crisp thickets of the Carrageen moss , whose every branch hurls back a changeful , many - tinted rainbow of light . Here at the verge ...
... line its margin , then the delicately- lobed , waving foliage of the green laver , and beyond the dark crisp thickets of the Carrageen moss , whose every branch hurls back a changeful , many - tinted rainbow of light . Here at the verge ...
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... , -but he will lie harmlessly enough with our anemones when we get him home . Here is a pink button sticking to the stone , streaked with vertical lines of small opal dots or tubercles , six or more of these lines 36 A MANUAL.
... , -but he will lie harmlessly enough with our anemones when we get him home . Here is a pink button sticking to the stone , streaked with vertical lines of small opal dots or tubercles , six or more of these lines 36 A MANUAL.
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George Tugwell. dots or tubercles , six or more of these lines being very distinctly composed of larger tubercles of an opaque white colour . This is Actinia gemmacea , " the gem , " or , in the vernacular , " buttons . " He will ...
George Tugwell. dots or tubercles , six or more of these lines being very distinctly composed of larger tubercles of an opaque white colour . This is Actinia gemmacea , " the gem , " or , in the vernacular , " buttons . " He will ...
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... lines had struggled out of the recesses of his heart . There is no com- panion of our solitude " like the sea : " There is a rapture on a lonely shore , There is society , where none intrudes , By the deep sea , and music in its roar ...
... lines had struggled out of the recesses of his heart . There is no com- panion of our solitude " like the sea : " There is a rapture on a lonely shore , There is society , where none intrudes , By the deep sea , and music in its roar ...
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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"!