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Title: Elements of biology; a practical text-book correlating botany, zoology, and human physiology
Identifier: elementsofbiolog00hunt (find matches)
Year: (c1907) ((c10s)
Authors: Hunter, George William, 1873-1948
Subjects: Biology
Publisher: New York, American book company
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200 ZOOLOGY medusse produce eggs and sperms. Their reproduction is sexual, as was the reproduction by means of eggs and sperms from the prothallus of the fern. So we have in animals, as well as in plants, an alternation of generations. Sea Anemone. — Those who have visited our New England coast are famihar with another coelenterate called the sea anemone. This animal gets its name from the fact that, seen in a little rocky pool along the shore, it looks like a beautiful flower of a golden yellow or red color. The body of the sea anemone is like the hydra, a column attached at one end. The
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Sea anemone. About natural size. The right-hand specimen is expanded. Note the mouth surrounded by the tentacles. The left-hand specimen is contracted. From model at the American Museum of Natural History. free end is provided with a mouth surrounded with a great number of tentacles. These, when expanded, look like the petals of a flower. The sea anemone is a very voracious flower, for by means of the batteries of stinging cells in its tentacles it is able to catch and devour fishes and other animals almost as large as itself. When disturbed or irritated, the animal, like the hydra, contracts into a slimy ball. Although the sea anemone is like a large hydra in appearance, its Interior is different. The hollow digestive cavity contains a number of partitions more or less complete, which run from the outer wall toward the middle

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