 ... be of the most intimate kind. The several polyps have separate mouths and tentacles, and separate stomachs ; but beyond this there is no individual property. They coalesce, or are one, by intervening tissues, and there is a free circulation of fluids...  Corals and Coral Islands - Page 49by James Dwight Dana - 1890 - 440 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Science - 1851 - 510 pages
...tissues, and there is a free circulation of fluids through the many pores or lacunes. The zoophyte is like a living sheet of animal matter, fed and nourished by numerous mouths and as many stomachs, fn some species the coalescence is confined to the lower half of the polyps, or to a still less part... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1852 - 446 pages
...tissues, and there is a free circulation of fluids through the many pores or lacunes. The zoophyte is like a living sheet of animal matter, fed and nourished by numerous mouths and as many stomachs. In some species the coalescence is confined to the lower half of the polyps, or to a still less part... | |
 | Science - 1852 - 386 pages
...tissues, and there is a free circulation of fluids through the many pores or lacunes. The zoophyte is like a living sheet of animal matter, fed and nourished by numerous mouths and as many stomachs. In some species the coalescence is confined to the lower half of the polyps, or to a still less part... | |
 | Science - 1852 - 422 pages
...tissues, and there is a free circulation of fluids through the many pores or lacunes. The zoophyte is like a living sheet of animal matter, fed and nourished by numerous mouths and as many stomachs. In some species the coalescence is confined to the, lower half of the polyps, or to a still less part... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1852 - 460 pages
...tissues, and there is a free circulation of fluids through the many pores or lacunes. The zoophyte is like a living sheet of animal matter, fed and nourished by numerous mouths and as many stomachs. In some species the coalescence is confined to the lower half of the polyps, or to a still less part... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1852 - 450 pages
...tissues, and there is a free circulation of fluids through the many pores or lacunes. The zoophyte is like a living sheet of animal matter, fed and nourished by numerous mouths and as many 29» stomachs. In some species the coalescence is confined to the lower half of the polyps, or to a... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) - 1873 - 310 pages
...budding.' . . . ' It . PLUMULARIA FALCATA. is obvious,' says Dana, ' that the connection of the polyps, in all compound groups, must be of the most intimate...nourished by numerous mouths and as many stomachs.' The Astrseas, which are solid masses of coral rock, covered with star-like polyps, if alive, and star-like... | |
 | James Orton - Zoology - 1877 - 418 pages
...We can speak of the individual Corals, a, b, c, but we must write them down abe. The compound mass is " like a living sheet of animal matter, fed and...nourished by numerous mouths and as many stomachs." Life and death go on together, the old Polyps dying below as new ones are developed above. The living... | |
 | James Orton - Anatomy, Comparative - 1884 - 434 pages
...The compound mass is "like FIQ. 2oo.-oi-gnn-pipecorai(7wi • . * e . i pora mtwica). ludiau Oceau. a living sheet of animal matter, fed and nourished by numerous mouths and as many Polyps dying below as new ones are developed above. The living part of an Astrcea is only half an inch... | |
 | James Orton - Zoology - 1883 - 428 pages
...compound mass is "like FIG. 200.— organ-pipe corauruM, . . , - . . pora miaica). ludiau Ocean. a Jiving sheet of animal matter, fed and nourished by numerous mouths and as many Polyps dying below as new ones are developed above. The living part of an Astrcea is only half an inch... | |
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