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Paperback, [EAN: 9781130943085], RareBooksClub.com, RareBooksClub.com, Book, [PU: RareBooksClub.com], RareBooksClub.com, 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. 1871 Excerpt: ...but on the terminal branches are but little prominent, opening upward. They are usually closely crowded on all sides. Color lemon-yellow. Height 4 to 6 inches; diameter of branches, 10 to 24 of an inch, usually about "15. Spicula mostly large, lemon-yellow and yellowish white, with a few very small, deep purple ones. The forms are very diverse; the largest are mostly stout fusiform, often crooked, not very acute "spindles," thickly covered with rough papillae; other fusiform spicula are less than half as long, slender, acute at the ends, with fewer separated papillae. The purple ones are still smaller, slender, acute spindles, with prominent papillae. Club-shaped spicula are numerous, of various sizes, the large end very thick and covered with prominent sharp papillae; others have such papillae only on one side. Various intermediate forms of spicula are abundant. Very abundant below low-tide on the borders of the coral reefs of the Abrolhos and at Porto Seguro, where it also occurs on the stone reef, and in shallow water along shore. It is abundant at Bahia. Occasionally found in the larger tide-pools--c. r. H. Plcxaurella dichotoma Koffiker. Icones Histiolog., p. 138, Taf. xviii, f. 11, 1866. Gorgonia dichotoma Esper, Tab. liv. Plexaura dichotoma Dana, Zooph., p. 669. Plate IV, figures 5, 5", 5b. Several specimens of a Plexaurella, closely allied to this, if not identical, were collected at the Abrolhos, by Mr. Hartt. These are about a foot in height, consisting of 4 to 8 large, round, elongated branches, which originate from near the base and seldom divide, of nearly uniform diameter, about 5 inch throughout, except at the ends, where they are often enlarged or capitate. Cells large, rather numerous, often slightly raised, but usually ..., 1000, Subjects, 1, Arts & Photography, 2, Biographies & Memoirs, 3, Business & Money, 3248857011, Calendars, 4, Children's Books, 12290, Christian Books & Bibles, 4366, Comics & Graphic Novels, 5, Computers & Technology, 6, Cookbooks, Food & Wine, 48, Crafts, Hobbies & Home, 8975347011, Education & Teaching, 173507, Engineering & Transportation, 301889, Gay & Lesbian, 10, Health, Fitness & Dieting, 9, History, 86, Humor & Entertainment, 10777, Law, 17, Literature & Fiction, 173514, Medical Books, 18, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, 20, Parenting & Relationships, 3377866011, Politics & Social Sciences, 21, Reference, 22, Religion & Spirituality, 23, Romance, 75, Science & Math, 25, Science Fiction & Fantasy, 4736, Self-Help, 26, Sports & Outdoors, 28, Teen & Young Adult, 27, Travel, 283155, Books<

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