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•MOSS ANIMALS • OF THE SEA 



Eelgrass and the coarser seaweeds are everywhere festooned with yellow sprays of moss animals 

 (Btigula tuiTita)—\!iTgfi branching tufts of them, sometimes a foot long. Growing fast to seaweeds, 

 looking like seaweed, they travel with storm and tide and are often tossed on the beach too high to 

 be carried out again until the whole colony — thousands of minute animals — is beached and dead. 

 The beach is a vast sarcophagus of the sea. One can never tell what forms, rare or common, 

 may appear there, today or tomorrow, and the fascinating search takes one to the doorway of one of 

 the fields of biological science most bewildering in its wealth of species and their interrelationships 



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