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And it is noteworthy, first, that the defensive thorns which are permanent on the two thinner species, aculeatum and echinatum, disappear altogether on the thicker one, tuberculatum, as old age gives him a solid and heavy globose shell; and next, that he too, while young and tender, and liable therefore to be bored through by whelks and such murderous univalves, does actually possess the same briar- prickles, which his thinner cousins keep throughout life.
Enough of Cardium tuberculatum. Now for the other animals of the heap; and first, for those long white razors. They are very good to eat, these razor-fish; at least, for those who so think them; and abound in millions upon all our sandy shores. Now for the tapering brown spires. Stay: here is one which is "more than itself."
In it, each point, instead of degenerating into a knot, as in tuberculatum, or developing from delicate flat briar- prickles into long straight thorns, as in aculeatum, is close-set to its fellow, and curved at the point transversely to the shell, the whole being thus horrid with hundreds of strong tenterhooks, making his castle impregnable to the raveners of the deep.
I say, to one of the great red capsicums which hang drying in every Covent-garden seedsman's window. Yet is either simile better than the guess of a certain lady, who, entering a room wherein a couple of Cardium tuberculatum were waltzing about a plate, exclaimed, "Oh dear! I always heard that my pretty red coral came out of a fish, and here it is all alive!" "C. tuberculatum," says Mr.
Sistrum fiscellum, Chemnitz. 21. Sistrum tuberculatum, Blainville. 22. Harpa solida, A. Adams. 23. Fasciolaria trapezium, Lamarck. 24. Turbinella cornigera, Lamarck. 25. Triton maculosus, Reeve. 27. Triton aquatilis, Reeve. 28. Solarium perspectivum, Linne. 33. Cypraa arabica, Linne. 34. Cypraa pantherina, Linne. 35. Cypraa camelopardalis, Perry. 36. Cypraa carneola, Linne. 37.
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