166 THE. OCEAN WORLD. 
plentifully in the Atlantic, living in flocks, and attains a great size. It 
is common in the month of June on the shores near Saint Malo; 
in August on the English coast; and along the strand of every port 
im the Channel they are to be seen in the month of October in 
thousands, where they lie high and dry upon the shore, on which 
they have been thrown by the force of the winds. 
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Fig. 57.—Cassiopea andromeda (Tilesius). 
R. Aldrovandi (Fig. 56) is also common, and is to be met with 
all the year round in calm weather. It is an animal much dreaded 
by bathers. It possesses a stinging apparatus, which produces an 
effect similar to the stinging-nettle when applied to the skin. If the 
animal touches the fisherman at the moment of being drawn from the 
water, it is apt to inflame the part that it touches and raise it into 
pustules, 
