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Ch. 6: Coral

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polished, showing at its surface a great number of cells, each one of which incloses a polype. These very elegant little animals are what were taken for the flowers of coral.
Fig. 86 shows the polypi of the coral in different degrees of expansion.
It will be seen that their eight extended tenta-cules, pointed and incised along their edges, joined to the completely white colour of the animals themselves, present an ensemble which a century or two ago might well be taken for a flower.
Stripped of its coating, the coral shows a great number of parallel, longitudinal, and very often
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