corklet

Updated: May 13, 2025

That however, the author of these pages can do, who, on 29 June 1859, discovered a tiny atom, and ran in the greatest agitation to announce the discovery of that object 'as a form with which he was unacquainted', which figures since then on all lists of sea-anemones as phellia murocincta, or the walled corklet. Alas! that so fair a swallow should have made no biological summer in after-life.

Edmund Gosse - Father and Son: a study of two temperaments