It is remarkable that no fibrous communications can be made out between the calices and the cauliculi, or between the trabeculæ and the œsophageal connectives.
The peduncle divides above, and each branch joins one of thecalices of the same hemisphere.
Some calices there are, which, by their colouring, approximate so closely to the second floral envelope, that one is always tempted to call them corollas.
And these bright flowers which resemble large strawberries, and abound on the borders of meadow-paths, if you look at them closely, you find to be the accrescent calices of the Trifolium fragiferum.
In Heliolites porosus the colonies had the form of spheroidal masses; the caliceswere furnished with twelve pseudosepta, and the coenenchymal tubes were more or less regularly hexagonal.
Branching or massive aporose corals, the calices projecting above the level of a compact coenenchyme formed from the coenosarc which covers the exterior of the corallum.
Incrusting or massive colonial perforate corals; calicesusually in contact by their edges, sometimes disjunct and immersed in coenenchyme.
Colonial branching aporose corals, with smallcalices sunk in the coenenchyme.
A, Portion of the surface of a colony of Heliopora coerulea magnified, showing twocalices and the surrounding coenenchymal tubes.
To protect the flowers from useless crawling visitors, the calices are coated with sticky matter, and the stems are downy.
None of these blossoms can be carried far after being picked; they have a tantalizing habit of dropping off, leaving a bouquet of tiny green calices chiefly.
But their flush is broken and oppressed by the dark calicesout of which they spring, and their utmost power in the field is only of a saddened amethystine lustre, subdued with furry brown.
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