SEA-ANEMONES AND CORALS. 



No. 12. 



<iead, and bud from the base (the figure represented in 

 wood 'Cut 1 1 is one of this kind) .* In others, the animals 

 are larger and bud from th side, as in our little picture 

 here (No. 1 2).f In others, each 

 animal widens gradually toward 

 the summit as it grows, assum- 

 ing thus a sort of trumpet shape ; 

 then divides, so that where there 

 was but one mouth there are 

 now two, as you see in the pic- 

 ture (No. 13) ; \ and these 

 again may spread and divide in 

 the same manner, thus increas- 

 ing by division till they form a 

 very large cluster. In another kind, the individuals do 

 not divide and widen as they grow higher, and cannot 

 therefore, by spreading, fill up the spaces between, which 

 enlarge with their increasing 

 height ; but in those spaces the 

 new buds form, filling all the 

 intervals, and making a coral 

 mass covered all o\ er with 

 thousands of closely packed 

 pits, each one of which marks 

 the spot occupied by a little 

 animal (No. 14). Others grow 

 in lighter branches, so like 

 plants that I am sure, if you 

 looked into water where numbers of these singular ani 



No. 13. 



* Agaricia or Mycidium. \ No. 12 : CaryophylJia. 



\ No. 13 : Mussa. 



No. 14. Astrea: heads of this kind measure frequent!* 

 several feet across. 



