- Acokanthera spectabilis
Acokanthera spectabilis - Adenium multiflorum
Adenium multiflorum - Agapanthus Umbellatus
Agapanthus Umbellatus - Aloe Pienaarii
Aloe Pienaarii - Aloe pretoriensis
Aloe pretoriensis - Aloe Globuligemma
Aloe Globuligemma - Arctotis Decurrens
Arctotis Decurrens - Bolusanthus speciosus
Bolusanthus speciosus - Ceropegia Meyeri
Ceropegia Meyeri - Ceropegia Rendallii
Ceropegia Rendallii - Clerodendron triphyllum
Clerodendron triphyllum - Clivia miniata
Clivia miniata - Crassula falcata
Cyrtanthus Angustifolius - Cyrtanthus Angustifolius
- Cyrtanthus McKenii
Cyrtanthus McKenii - Cyrtanthus obliquus
Cyrtanthus obliquus - Cyrtanthus rotundilobus
Cyrtanthus rotundilobus - Cyrtanthus sanguineus
Cyrtanthus sanguineus - Freesia refracta
Freesia refracta - Gardenia globosa
Gardenia globosa - Gerbera Jamesoni
Gerbera Jamesoni - Gladiolus psittacinus
Gladiolus psittacinus - Gladiolus Rehmanni
Gladiolus Rehmanni - Haemanthus natalensis
Haemanthus natalensis - Leucadendron Stokoei
Leucadendron Stokoei - Leucadendron Stokoei
Leucadendron Stokoei - Mimetes palustris
Mimetes palustris - Moraea iridioides
Moraea iridioides - Nymphaea stellata
Nymphaea stellata - Orothamnus Zeyheri
Orothamnus Zeyheri - Pachypodium succulentum
Pachypodium succulentum - Protea abyssinica
Protea abyssinica - Richardia angustiloba
Richardia angustiloba - Richardia Rehmanni
Richardia Rehmanni - Sarcocaulon rigidum
Sarcocaulon rigidum - Senecio stapeliaeformis
Senecio stapeliaeformis - Stapelia Gettleffii
Stapelia Gettleffii - Streptocarpus Dunnii
Streptocarpus Dunnii - Tulbaghia violacea
Tulbaghia violacea - Witsenia maura
Witsenia maura - Stomias Boa. From a depth of 1,900 metres
- Sicyonis crassa
M, mouth; S, ciliated groove; T, tentacles. Each tentacle is perforated by a single large aperture. A fact of some importance that supports this hypothesis, as regards some parts of the ocean at least, is presented by the sea-anemones. Many of the shallow-water Actinians are known to possess minute slits in the tentacles and disc, affording a free communication between the general body cavity or cœlenteron and the exterior. In many deep-sea forms the tentacles are considerably shorter and the apertures larger than they are in shallow-water forms. It is difficult to believe that such forms, perforated by, comparatively speaking, large holes, could manage to live in rapidly flowing water, for if they did so they would soon be smothered by the fine mud that composes the floor of all the deep seas. In fact anemones of the type presented by such forms as Sicyonis crassa are only fitted for existence in sluggish or still water. - Globigerina ooze
The Globigerina ooze is perhaps the best known of all the different deep-sea deposits. It was discovered and first described by the officers of the American Coast Survey in 1853. It is found in great abundance in the Atlantic Ocean in regions shallower than 2,200 fathoms. Deeper than this, it gradually merges into the ‘Red mud.’ It is mainly composed of the shells of Foraminifera, and of these the different species of Globigerina are the most abundant. It is probably formed partly by the shells of the dead Foraminifera that actually live on the bottom of the ocean and partly by the shells of those that live near the surface or in intermediate depths and fall to the bottom when their lives are done. So abundant are the shells of these Protozoa that nearly 95 per cent. of the Globigerina ooze is composed of carbonate of lime. The remaining five per cent. is composed of sulphate and phosphate of lime, carbonate of ammonia, the oxides of iron and manganese, and argillaceous matters. The oxides of iron and manganese are probably of meteoric origin; the argillaceous matter may be due to the trituration of lumps of pumice stone and to the deposits caused by dust storms. - Semi-diagrammatic section through the eye of Serolis schythei
a shallow-water species (4–70 fathoms). C, lens; V, crystalline cone; R, rhabdom; N, nerve. (After Beddard.) The eyes of all the deep-sea species are relatively larger than those of the shallow-water ones, except Serolis gracilis, whose eyes seem to be disappearing. But these large eyes of the deep-sea species of Serolis are not capable of any greater perceptive power. In fact, the evidence of degeneration they show, both in minute structure and in the diminution of pigment, proves that they can be of very little use to these animals for perception. - Opostomias micripnus
In Opostomias micripnus, a dark black fish living at a depth of over 2,000 fathoms, there are two rows of ocellar organs running down the sides of the body from the head to the tail. In the living animal they are said to shine with a reddish lustre. In addition to these, the conspicuous organs, there are `groups` of fifty, a hundred, or even more very much smaller organs situated on the sides and back of the fish, each of which is lenticular in shape and consists of a number of short polygonal tubes containing a granular substance with rounded bases resting on the subjacent tissue. The whole organ is covered 79by a simple continuation of the cuticle of the body-wall. The granular substance contained in the tubes is most probably the seat of luminosity. - Saccopharynx ampullaceus
- Melanocetus Murrayi, 1,850–2,450 fathoms
- Hypobythius calycodes
- Collosendeis arcuatus, from a depth of 1,500 metres
- Bentheuphausia amblyops, from 1,000 fathoms
- Polycheles baccata
- Euphausia latifrons, from the surface of the sea
- Bathynomus giganteus
- Bathyteuthis abyssicola
- Daniel and the lions
- Common American Toad
Toad swallowing an insect - Rana Clamata, or Green Frog
- Leaf-Cutter Bee at Work
Two Tunnels Being Filled With Leaf-Cells. You should see the little creature in her never-tiring work of preparing material for her nest. In and out among the roses she goes, examining each leaf with the most critical care, and only desisting from her labor when a suitable one has been chosen. She scans it over and over, and at last from a position on its upper or nether surface proceeds to cut a piece just fitted for her work, which, heavy as it seems, is seized between the legs and jaws and carried on swiftly-agitated wings to her burrow. Ten pieces or more, each differing in shape, are cut and borne away, which the ingenious insect tailor twists and folds, the one within the other, until is formed a funnel-like cone, whose end is narrower than its mouth. So perfectly joined are the parts, that even when dry they have been found to retain their form and integrity. A cake of honey and pollen, for the use of some yet unborn Leaf-cutter, is deposited within, and on this, in due time, is laid a single small egg. Nought now remains but to wall up the cell. A circle of leaf, of the size of the opening, is cut, and this is closely adjusted within the wall of rolled-up leaves. Sometimes as many as four pieces are thus utilized. A second cell, similarly built, is fitted to the first, and this is succeeded by eight or ten others. When all is completed, the eggs being laid and the cells all victualled, the hole of the shaft is closed with the earth that was thrown out, and so carefully, too, that not a trace of her doings remains to tell us the story. - Mourning-Cloak Butterfly
Larva Feeding on Willow Leaf, and Chrysalis Suspended from Twig. - Neglecta Butterfly
Larva Feeding on Central Florets of Actinomeris, and Guarded by Ants.