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172 The Floral King.
instead of feet, and both at the head and at the tail
four threads, Antenne or Feutacula. Afterwards he
frequently viewed them, and found that all which
was luminous in the water or the foam, was caused
by these tiny, and almost invisible worms.
“These grubs glow with the whole body, and not
like the glow-worms with a part, but not particularly
when they lie quiet. The light of these luminous
worms keeps during the spring everywhere on the
sea-weed, and mostly to the surface. When the
water is very luminous during the nights, the fisher-
men predict that storm and foul weather will arise,
which is caused by the worms then being more
active and disquiet.
“From these results of Dr. Vianelli, it is incon-
testible that the foam of the sea is luminous from
worms, and also that Peuna Marina glows in the
dark (about which Mr. Shaw writes that the fisher-
men at Algeria often get them with their nets, when
in the nights it glows so that they can see the
nearest fishes in the net) indubitably caused by the
little worms. I fain wish that the author had
defined these worms, and if I am to believe his eyes,
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