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Much of the seaweed from deeper bottoms seems to be covered with a dense fur, which under a hand lens resolves into beautiful hydroids, near relatives of the anemones and corals. Scientists have happily given these most euphonious names Campanularia, Obelia, and Plumularia. Among the branches of certain of these, numbers of round discs or spheres are visible.
Animate flowers sea-nettles, sea anemones, plumularia, campanularia, hydropores, confervae, oscillatoria, bryozoa people the great waters.
But here it was no longer some isolated bush or a modest grove of low timber. It was an immense forest, huge mineral vegetation, enormous petrified trees linked by garlands of elegant hydras from the genus Plumularia, those tropical creepers of the sea, all decked out in shades and gleams.
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