9. Sea fingers, a kind of soft coral, deserves its name when seen, as here, with the Iiodv 

 limp and the pohps withdrawn. Compare this contracted colonv of Alci/oniiim palina- 

 ttim with the tulK' expanded sea pen overleaf. (Banynls, France. Ralph Bnchshaum ) 



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