Show vegetable boa constrictors portions of the south pacific ocean produce a wonderful species of tho the sea ottil called the vegetable ble boa tor they are likely to he be met with at any point between the lower point of southern Califor california nii and the sand sandwich wl ch felanda on the one side and between chili and australia on the other these vi vie ine e we like stranglers are frequently foun boond d tightly entwined about the body of a deYN dad whale vItale shark or porpoise but whether they had fastened upon the bodies oi 01 these dead dea I 1 sea animals before life hail become extinct or had only ventured U attack attach tho the remains after tho the vital had fled are conundrums which 0 of course cannot be answered expert antt made mada with this curious vine vice and the tha e car ar aps cps of a por porpoise peise washed ashore in 10 the tha harbor at apia abia tend to prove that th vine like that of our common bean ban will not entwine itself around anything dc boj doj d whether that thin thing bo be of talIo or guiral creation dr chadbourne in his annals of the caroline carolina islands flays bays 1 I 1 live hava often seen monster specimens of macri cystis the giant seaweed with eve every iy ay of life squeezed out of them by that ocean demon the tha constrictor hiie which is itself a species of seaweed often grows to be from 0 to 30 80 inches in diameter and 1500 to 2000 feet in length while the constrictor vine saldon exceeds feet in lengell and is never larger in diameter thau a pound poma and a half salmon can it is ia tha squeeze snake anake of the ocean ocea a ho however weTer and woo woe to the unlucky man animal or plant that omes comes within its reach st louis republican |