Wonders of earth, sea and sky 403

Identifier: youngfolkslibrar11aldr (find matches)
Title: Young folks library
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: Boston, CT : Hall and Locke
Contributing Library: Internet Archive
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive



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, and green seaweeds, stony corallines, and acorn-barnacles lining the floor, sea-anemones clinging to thesides, sponges tiny and many-colored hiding under theledges, and limpets and mussels wedged in the cracks.These can be easily seen with the naked eye, but theyare not the most numerous inhabitants; for these 868 Wonders of Earth, Sea, and Sky we must searcli with a magnifying glass, which will re-veal to us wonderful fairy-forms, delicate crystal vaseswith tiny creatures in them whose transparent lashesmake whirlpools in the water, living crystal bells sotiny that whole branches of them look only like a fringeof hair, jelly globes rising and falling in the water,patches of Hving jelly chnging to the rocky sides of thepool, and a hundred other forms, some so minute thatyou must examine the fine sand in which they lie undera powerful microscope before you can even guess thatthey are there. So it has proved a rich hunting-ground, wheresummer and winter, spring and autumn, I find some
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1, Ulva Linza. Fig. 1. Group of Seaweeds.(Natural size.)2, Sphacelaria Ulicina. 3, Polysiphonia4, Corallina officinalis. urceolata. form to put under my magic glass. There I canwatch it for weeks growing and multiplying undermy care ; moved only from the aquarium, where Ikeep it supplied with healthy sea-water, to the tiny Inhabitants of My Pool 369 transparent trough in whicli I place it for a fewhours to see the changes it has undergone. I couldtell you endless tales of transformations in these tinylives, but I want to-day to show you a few of myfriends, most of which I brought yesterday fresh fromthe pool, and have prepared for you to examine. Let us begin with seaweeds. I have said that thereare three leading colors in my pool — green, olive, andred — and these tints markroughly three kinds of weed,though they occur in an end-less variety of shapes. Here isa piece of the beautiful palegreen seaweed, called the Laveror Sea-Lettuce, Ulva Lima (1,Fig. 1),^ which grows in longribb