CHAPTER XVII.

CŒLENTERATA.

POLYPS AND JELLY-FISHES.

Thread-cells or Urticating Organs.--Sertulariæ.--Campanulariadæ.--

Hydrozoic Acalephæ.--Medusidæ.--Lucernariadæ.--Calycophoridæ.--

The Velella.--The Portuguese Man-of-war.--Anecdote of a Prussian

Sailor.--Alternating Fixed and Free-swimming Generations of

Hydrozoa.--Actinozoa.--Ctenophora.--Their Beautiful Construction.

--Sea-anemones.--Dead Man's Toes.--Sea-pens.--Sea-rods.--Red

Coral.--Coral Fishery.--Isis hippuris.--Tropical Lithophytes.--

History of the Coral Islands.--Darwin's Theory of their

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