...vases and shrubbery, occasionally ten, or even twenty feet in diameter, whose symmetrical surface ia gorgeously decked with polyp-stars of purple and emerald green. All the many shapes proceed m each instance from a single germ, which grows and buds under a few simple laws of development, and...

...Prof. Jos. D. Dana, Geology of the US Exploring Expedition. IORM8 OF ACTINOID ZOOFHYTES. ZOOFHYTES imitate nearly every variety of vegetation. Trees...branch, the broad leaf, the column, or the hemisphere. But the more massy forms would not exist, and others would be of diminutive size, were it not for a...

...whole surface blooms with coral a' ps in place of leaves and flowers. Shrubbery, tufts of rushes, i of pinks, and feathery mosses, are most exactly imitated....branch, the broad leaf, the column, or the hemisphere. But the more massy forms would not exist, and others would be of diminutive size, were it not for a...

...the Corals of the Pacific, thus endeavours to describe some of their general diversities of form : " Trees of coral are well known ; and although not emulating...decked with polyp-stars of purple and emerald green." Under such aspects appear the living organisms whose combined efforts have mainly constructed those...

...the Corals of the Pacific, thus endeavours to describe some of their general diversities of form: " Trees of coral are well known ; and although not emulating...decked with polyp-stars of purple and emerald green." Under such aspects appear the living organisms whose combined efforts have mainly constructed those...

...gracefully-modelled vases, some of which are three or four feet in diameter, made up of a net. work of branches and branchlets, and sprigs of flowers....decked with polyp-stars of purple and emerald green." — DANA. 'We cannot study these lower beings, and witness their direct and indirect uses to man, without...

...their numerous representatives. Besides these forms imitating vegetation, there are gracefully-modelled vases, some of which are three or four feet in diameter,...decked with polyp-stars of purple and emerald green." — DANA. 'We cannot study these lower beings, and witness their direct and indirect uses to man, without...

...their numerous representatives. Besides these forms imitating vegetation, there are gracefully-modelled vases, some of which are three or four feet in diameter,...is gorgeously decked with polyp-stars of purple and emeraldgreen. Bearing in mind this extraordinary resemblance of the polypes to flowers and plants,...

...their numerous representatives. Besides these forms imitating vegetation, there are gracefully-modelled vases, some of which are three or four feet in diameter,...decked with polyp-stars of purple and emerald green." — DANA. We cannot study these lower beings, and witness their direct and indirect uses to man, without...

...some of which are three or four feet in diameter, made up of a network of branches and branehlets, and sprigs of flowers. There are also solid coral...decked with polyp-stars of purple and emerald green." — DANA. We cannot study these lower beings, and witness their direct and indirect uses to man, without...