Corallina, or, A classical arrangement of flexible coralline polypidoms / selected from the French of J. V. F. Lamouroux.

  • Lamouroux, (Jean Vincent Félix), M., 1779-1825.
Date:
1824
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Credit: Corallina, or, A classical arrangement of flexible coralline polypidoms / selected from the French of J. V. F. Lamouroux. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    ding months: when the water first leaves tliem, the polypi are full of life, but suffer and languish as they lose their moisture; nor fail to perish should the sea remain too long without re-covering them : those that can retire into the recesses of their cells, are more enabled to hold out, by means of the moisture they preserve ; but the uncovered polypi, and those whose whole mass is animated, like the Alcyones, experience a quicker alteration, proportioned to the higher tempe- rature and the dryness of the air. Taken in this state of sufferance, and replaced in sea water, these little ani- mals slowly resume their activity: there are some which do not expand their tentacula till the second or third day, whilst those which immediately after their expo- sure to the air have been carefully returned to their natural element in a tranquil place, where the water was not agitated, have as soon expanded from their cells, or the mass to which they were attached. It may be necessary to remark, that naturalists have sometimes erred, in describing the polypus con- tracted, for the polypus expanded. Some species of Polypidoms are found always si- tuated on the southern slopes of the rocks, but never on those of the east, west, or north; others, on the contrary, dcvelope only on the last aspects, and never Cor. fi