skeleton-less

Updated: May 16, 2025

Nearer the shore the stony blocks are overspread by masses of that singular skeleton-less coral, known as alcyonaria partaking of the nature of rubber and of leather an ugly, repulsive, tyrannous growth, over-running and killing other and more delicate corals, as undesirable pests crowd out useful and becoming vegetation.

E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield - Confessions of a Beachcomber