Ponds and rock pools : with hints on collecting for and the management of the micro-aquarium / by Henry Scherren.
- Scherren, Henry, 1842-1911.
- Date:
- 1894
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Ponds and rock pools : with hints on collecting for and the management of the micro-aquarium / by Henry Scherren. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![branches sometimes occur the encrusting cells of Ellis’s Foliaceous Coralline (Membranipora pilosa), and Gosse’s Stag’s Horn Coralline (Alcyonidium hirsutum), while among the vegetation may be traced the tendrils of the Nit Coralline (Amathia lendigera), with its cells arranged at intervals in small groups, the Grape Coralline (Valkeria uva), and the Dodder-like Coralline (Valkeria uva-cus- cata), which trails over seaweeds just as one may see the Dodder trailing over heather and furze. But there the similarity ends, for the Dodder Coralline, unlike the parasite from which it takes its name, has no injurious effect on the plants on which it lives. If the methods described seem to entail too much trouble and inconvenience, there remains what Mr. Hincks calls a ‘ more easiful way.’ Every one can walk along the shore following the tide as it retreats. The weed cast up will always yield some kind of spoil, and sometimes good fortune will throw a veritable ‘ haul ’ in the way of the collector. A few summers ago a friend who was spending his holidays in North Kent sent me a small biscuit-box loosely packed with seaweed, which he had selected with the aid of a pocket- magnifier. Among the green weeds were several species of Cladophora and the palm-like Bryopsis ; ] the red consisted chiefly of Plocamium and Cera- mium, while the brown weeds were represented by Cladostephus and Striaria. About sixteen hours elapsed between the despatch of the parcel and its](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28128163_0046.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
