 | 1847 - 574 pages
...represents exactly the animal itself. These stony cells are sometimes single and cupped, sometimes ramifying like a tree, and sometimes grouped like a cauliflower, or imitating the human brain. Those corals called madrepores, sea mushrooms, and brainstones, abound in the tropical seas, but they... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1847 - 606 pages
...represents exactly the animal itself. These stony cells are sometimes single and cupped, sometimes ramifying like a tree, and sometimes grouped like a cauliflower, or imitating the human brain. Those corals called madrepores, sea mushrooms, and brainstones, abound in the tropical seas, but they... | |
 | Henry Theodore Cheever - 1851 - 346 pages
...represents exactly the animal itself. " These stony cells are sometimes single and cupped ; sometimes ramifying like a tree, and sometimes grouped like...dead. A new set of workmen take their places, and add another story to the rising edifice. The same process goes on from generation to generation, until... | |
 | Henry Theodore Cheever - 1851 - 382 pages
...represents exactly the animal itself. " These stony cells are sometimes single and cupped ; sometimes ramifying like a tree, and sometimes grouped like...remain fixed to the rock in which they began their labors, after the animals themselves are dead. A new set of workmen take their places, and add another... | |
 | Joel Tyler Headley, J. T. Headley - 1855 - 356 pages
...represents exactly the animal itself. These stony cells are sometimes single and cupped ; sometimes ramifying, like a tree, and sometimes grouped, like...remain fixed to the rock in which they began their labors after the animals themselves are dead. A new set of workmen take their places, and add another... | |
 | Henry Theodore Cheever - 1856 - 372 pages
...represents exactly the animal itself. " These stony cells are sometimes single and cupped ; sometimes ramifying like a tree, and sometimes grouped like...remain fixed to the rock in which they began their labors, after the animals themselves are dead. A new set of workmen take their places, and add another... | |
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... a cell, or polypidom, or polypary, into the hollow of which the animal can retire. The solid thus formed is called a coral, which represents exactly the animal itself. " These stony cells are sometimes single and cupped ; sometimes ramifying like... 