Oxynaspis celata, with the skin of the encrustinghorny zoophyte removed.
The Sena, and several other small rivulets which feed the Elsa, have the property of encrusting wood and herbs with calcareous stone.
Another encrusting spring in the same department, situated at Chaluzet, near Pont Gibaud, rises in a gneiss country, at the foot of a regular volcanic cone, at least twenty miles from any calcareous rock.
Amongst the Coelenterates, the "Hydroid Zoophytes" are represented by a species of the encrusting genus Hydractinia, the horny polypary of which is so commonly found at the present day adhering to the exterior of shells.
It is common everywhere, on shells and stones, and encrusting Fuci and other seaweeds, which it sometimes covers almost completely.
The encrusting sponges which grow on rocks present a mass, so to speak, of little hillocks: in kinds which attain a larger growth, these may almost be described as branches.
Trophosome encrustingwith hydranths of Bougainvillea-type, polyps differentiated into blastostyles, gastrozoids and dactylozoids; gonosome free medusae or gonophores.
The polyps may be solitary, or form colonies, which may be of the spreading or encrusting type, or arborescent, and then always of monopodial growth and budding.
Encrusting colonies of this kind are seen in Clava squamata (fig.
So far as the trophosome is concerned, the step from an encrusting hydroid such as Hydractinia to the hydrocoralline Millepora is not great.
Of these, one was a more or less linear arrangement of the zooecia on leaves and twigs, and the other, and more common, form was an encrusting sheath on the outer surface of the shells of Paludina.
Oates, who collected and presented the sponge, writes that the specimen was found encrusting the vertical and horizontal surfaces of the bottom beam of a lock gate, where it covered an area of six square feet.
Tanganyika they were encrusting stones and shells, while at Igatpuri they were fixed for the most part to the lower surface of stones but were also found on the stems of water-plants.
The ridges are often obscured, and apparently sometimes almost obliterated by the encrusting coral.
Through the front opening the Stizus provides itself with sand as and when it spends this material on encrusting the interior.
The first are workers in mosaic, encrusting a network of silk and sand; the second weave pure silk.
An Astrae andencrusting Flustra, apparently identical with species now living in the bay.
I did not disturb her again, but stood by and watched her slowly move off with her encrusting family to a place of safety.
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