302 SEA-ANEMONES, ZOOPHYTES, ETC. 



rare off the southern coasts of England, and may 

 easily be obtained alive. 



The smaller zoophytes are too inconspicuous to be 

 kept in tanks for public exhibition, although many 

 naturalists keep them alive for purposes of research. 



Fig. 233. 



Gorgonia verticillaria. 



No other group of marine animals is so interesting, 

 especially since it has been discovered that the 

 minute Campanularians give rise to large jelly-fish- 

 like progeny. Indeed, many of the so-called me- 

 dusoid jelly-fishes are but the larval conditions of 



