 | Edwin Lankester - Zoology, Economic - 1876 - 396 pages
...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... | |
 | Georg Hartwig - Marine animals - 1892 - 588 pages
...large-leaved plant just unfolding; when alive, the surface of each leaf is covered with polyp-flowers. The cactus, the lichen clinging to the rock, and the...is gorgeously decked with polyp-stars of purple and emeraldgreen." Under such aspects appear the living organisms whose combined efforts have mainly constructed... | |
 | Natural history - 1901 - 214 pages
...which are three or four feet in diameter, made up of a network of branches and sprigs of flowers. 7. " There are also solid, coral hemispheres like domes...is gorgeously decked with polyp-stars of purple and emerald-green." Under such circumstances one is not surprised at the fancies of the ancients connected... | |
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The cactus, the lichen clinging to the rock, and the fungus in all its varieties, have their numerous representatives. Besides these forms imitating vegetation, there are gracefully modelled vases, some of which are three or four feet in diameter, made... 
