 In many instances the lichen-like Nullipore grows at the same rate with the rate of death in the zoophyte, and keeps itself up to the very limit of the living part. The dead trunk of the forest becomes covered with lichens and fungi, or, in tropical climes,...  Corals and Coral Islands - Page 97by James Dwight Dana - 1890 - 440 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Science - 1851 - 510 pages
...of numberless small incrusting species of corals, besides Nullipores, Serpulas, and some molluscs. In many instances the lichen-like Nullipore grows...fungi, or in tropical climes, with other foliage and various foreign flowers : so among the coral productions of the sea, there are forms of life which... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1852 - 446 pages
...increase just explained. The dead surface becomes the resting-place of numberless small incrusting species of corals, besides Nullipores, Serpulas, and...fungi, or, in tropical climes, with other foliage and various foreign flowers : so, among the coral productions of the sea, there are forms of life which... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1852 - 460 pages
...increase just explained. The dead surface becomes the resting-place of numberless small incrusting species of corals, besides Nullipores, Serpulas, and...fungi, or, in tropical climes, with other foliage and various foreign flowers : so, among the coral productions of the sea, there are forms of life which... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1852 - 450 pages
...increase just explained. The dead surface becomes the resting-place of numberless small incrusting species of corals, besides Nullipores, Serpulas, and...fungi, or, in tropical climes, with other foliage and various foreign flowers : so, among the coral productions of the sea, there are forms of life which... | |
 | Science - 1852 - 422 pages
...of numberless small incrusting species of corals, besides Nullipores, Serpulas, and some molluscs. In many instances the lichen-like Nullipore grows...fungi, or in tropical climes, with other foliage and various foreign flowers : so among the coral productions of the sea there are forms of life which replace... | |
 | Science - 1852 - 386 pages
...of numberless small incrusting species of corals, besides Nullipores, Serpulas, and some molluscs. In many instances the lichen-like Nullipore grows...fungi, or in tropical climes, with other foliage and various foreign flowers : so among the coral productions of the sea there are forms of life which replace... | |
 | James Dwight Dana - Coral reefs and islands - 1853 - 152 pages
...of numberless small incrusting species of corals, besides Nullipores, Serpulas, and some molluscs. In many instances the lichen-like Nullipore grows...fungi, or in tropical climes, with other foliage and various foreign flowers : so among the coral productions of the sea, there are forms of life which... | |
 | Thomas Milner - Science - 1857 - 474 pages
...increase just explained. The dead surface becomes the resting place of numberless small incrusting species of corals, besides nullipores, serpulas, and...fungi, or, in tropical climes, with other foliage an4 various foreign flowers ; so among the coral productions of the sea, there are other forms of life... | |
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