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Port Wine

Lisbon, Portugal: Pdacio das Necessidades.

colony of polyps, whose members show great
diversity of labor. The colony consists of an
air-sac or vesicle, filled \vilh gas, which pro-
jects at the surface of the water, and bears
a number of modified polyps on its under
aide, The commonest species is P. pelagica,
whose air-sac is a brilliant iridescent blue and
whose appendages are both blue and red, If

the tentacles come into contact with human
skin their stinging cells produce a burning
sensation which in some cases may have seri-
ous effects.

Port Wine, a pale red to a very dark red
or even violet-colored wine, produced from
spe'cial vines grown on the s, and southwest
mountain slopes of the Douro valley in Port-