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Title: Popular history of the aquarium of marine and fresh-water animals and plants
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: Sowerby, George Brettingham, 1788-1854
Subjects: Aquariums Marine biology Freshwater biology
Publisher: London : Lovell Reeve
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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ground; they arebent outwards and backwards. From the mouth protrudesa fleshy proboscis, the top of which spreads into a ckibbedhead, divided into papillae. Mr. Kingsley gives the follow-ing observation on the habits of this Zoophyte :— They lie(or rather stand) in wet, ribbed, clean sand, at low-watermark, the disc just out of ground. On digging carefully(for the animal retracts on the least shaking of the sand)vou find that he is buried bolt-upright to the depth of nineinches, where his extremity stops; the whole animal taper-ing gradually from stem to stern. On being taken out (noeasy matter, since its power of retraction, if irritated, is farmore springy and rapid than in any of the class, as far asI have tried them), and put into a vase of salt-water, heswells himself out with v\ater like a Ilolothurian, disclosinglongitudinal septa. All his motions are rapid and spasmo-dic ; betokening, as does his whole make, a higher muscularorganization than that of the Acti?iiaJ Pla-tt DC
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Sowertiy aei eLJidi ViTi>.ent Brooks J-np l.AntXiea. oereus ,with, twot^entacLes sviispeadedlry canferva and air-l)ab)olesZ Simocles mdma-tcL 3 and 4-. Sagsjtia nii/nsa. . 125 CHAPTER YI. SEA-BELLS AND CORALS. LUCEENAEIA.—ZOANTHUS.—MADEEPORES.—COMPAEED WITH AXEMOXES.—THEIE BEAUTY.—FEEDING.— BAL^NOPHYLLEA.— TUEBINAEIA.—OCU-LINA.—COEALS A^^D COEAL ISLAJSTDS,—MUSHEOOM COEAL, The Litcernana is very closely allied to the Sea-Anemones,and may be termed a Sea-Bell. It differs greatly in formfrom the family of Actimadce., and presents a set of cha-racters which place it sufficiently apart from all other forms.The genus Lucernaria is thus described :— Body bell- orgoblet-shaped, adherent or free at pleasure: mouth quad-rangular, in the centre of a membranous expanded disc;tentacles knobbed, clustered in groups on the projecting an-gles of the disc. Lucernaria auricula.This little bell, hanging on the stems and branches of 126 POPULAR HISTORY OF THE AQUARIUM. seaweeds,

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