Note 457 — Chapter IX · ON CONCRETIONS, SPICULES, AND SPICULAR SKELETONS
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The peculiar spicules of Astrosclera are now said to consist of spherules, or calcospherites, of aragonite, spores of a certain red seaweed forming the nuclei, or starting-points, of the concretions (R. Kirkpatrick, Proc. R. S. LXXXIV (B), p. 579, 1911).