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Excerpt from Die Alcyoniden der Siboga-Expedition: I. Coralliid�; II. Pseudocladochonus Hicksoni N. G. N. Sp
When the axis is dissolved slowly in weak acids, according to funabashi, a spongy organic substance is left behind, and when this is examined by the microscope it is found to consist entirely of the empty sacs of spicules, without any other cementing substance between them.
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