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Identifier: oceanwonderscomp00damo (find matches)
Title: Ocean wonders: a companion for the seaside
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Damon, William Emerson, 1838-
Subjects: Marine animals Aquariums
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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living animals, breathing, eating, digesting, andcapable of changing their forms at will. Would not a pinkbe more curious if it could walk ? a rose awaken greater in-terest if it could reach after its necessary nourishment, andtake care of its own buds ? Well, this is what the flowers ofthe sea do. This animal-flower is widely diffused, is found upon allour shores, usually adhering to rocks, and has even beenfound upon the timber of our docks. Every sea offers ussome representatives. It is classed by naturalists with thecorals; and, if we cannot all have the latter alive in ouraquaria, we can all secure sea-anemones, which will assist us to understand the mode of life of the former. 2 • g THE OCEAN. The sea-anemones possess the power of altering theirshape to an astonishing degree. Sometimes they will con-tract themselves into balls, partially elongated and expanded;then they will stretch ont their fringes and tentacles to theirwidest extent, like a polypetalons flower in Ml bloom.
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Ajtemojtes, oe Sea-Floweks. The variety known as Metridium marginatum is particu-larly fond of this habit. I have long had in my aquarium abeautiful salmon-colored one, which will assume many dif-ferent forms in as many minutes. Standing up at its fullheight, some six or seven inches, a constriction or belt will ACTINLE, SEA-ANEMONES, OR SEA-FLOWERS. appear around the middle of its body or column; this will bedrawn tighter and closer, until a perfect hour-glass form is pro-duced ; then perhaps this band or girdle will move upwardtoward the crown, and it will appear like a small umbrellaor mushroom. Then it may shift downward, and at a cer-tain distance become highly suggestive of a clelicate-waistedyoung maiden. I have seen two of these belts appear at thesame time, and have even observed three. Some of theforms assumed are wonderfully graceful and interesting tothe observer, but I doubt if these are healthy indications.Sometimes it remains attached to a piece of rock, and anonit pref

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  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Damon__William_Emerson__1838_
  • booksubject:Marine_animals
  • booksubject:Aquariums
  • bookpublisher:New_York__D__Appleton_and_company
  • bookcontributor:The_Library_of_Congress
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