sea-pen

The fleshy appendage at the lower extremity of the sea-pen (described at Bahia Blanca) also forms part of the zoophyte, as a whole, in the same manner as the roots of a tree form part of the whole tree, and not of the individual leaf or flower-buds.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

The fleshy appendage at the lower extremity of the sea-pen (described at Bahia Blanca) also forms part of the zoophyte, as a whole, in the same manner as the roots of a tree form part of the whole tree, and not of the individual leaf or flower-buds.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

The fleshy appendage at the lower extremity of the sea-pen (described at Bahia Blanca) also forms part of the zoophyte, as a whole, in the same manner as the roots of a tree form part of the whole tree, and not of the individual leaf or flower-buds.

Chapter IX 1909

I will only mention one other animal, a zoophyte (I believe Virgularia Patagonica), a kind of sea-pen.

Chapter V 1909

The fleshy appendage at the lower extremity of the sea-pen (described at Bahia Blanca) also forms part of the zoophyte, as a whole, in the same manner as the roots of a tree form part of the whole tree, and not of the individual leaf or flower-buds.

The Voyage of the Beagle Charles Darwin 1845

Every sea-pen is glorious in its light, in fact, nearly every eight-armed Alcyonarian is thus resplendent, and the social Pyrosoma, bulky and a free swimmer, glows like a bar of hot metal with a white and green radiance. "

Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky Various 1880