This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 Excerpt: ...capsules of the anemones are especially crowded on the tentacles, as well as scattered over various parts of the body. He tells us they "are little oval vescicles, embedded in the substance of the anemone, and containing within them a long delicate thread, closely coiled, in forms varying according to the description ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 Excerpt: ...capsules of the anemones are especially crowded on the tentacles, as well as scattered over various parts of the body. He tells us they "are little oval vescicles, embedded in the substance of the anemone, and containing within them a long delicate thread, closely coiled, in forms varying according to the description of capsule. The extreme tenuity of the thread may be imagined from the fact that the largest capsules are not more than the threehundredth part of an inch in length, and that within so small a compass the thread is coiled like a watch-spring in the barrel. Indeed, the simile of a watch-spring will nearly express the object, for the thread is so strong, in spite of its tenuity, that it has been aptly compared to the main-spring of a watch. When the tentacles are irritated or compressed, myriads of these capsules start forward, become everted, and shoot forth their tiny spears. The length and shape of these wonderful filaments are very various, some being of a very great length, and so fine that a microscope of high power can hardly distinguish them; while others are only two or three times the length of the capsule that contained them, and covered with an armature of short hairs even more minute than themselves." There is, therefore, no wonder that these apparently helpless creatures should be able to feed on animals much higher in the scale than themselves, possessed, also, with powers of rapid locomotion and quickness of sight, neither of which distinguishes our seaanemone. Strong crabs, in spite of their powerful limbs and pincers, have had to yield the ghost when they have got in the grip of these " animal flowers." Nay, it would even seem as though, in some cases, the principle of mimicry had had something to do with the...
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