46 SEA-SHORE LIFE 



It lives in dark situations on the under sides of stones, or upon the 

 shaded piles of wharv^es below low tide level. Sometimes, how- 

 ever, it is found almost buried in gravel or coarse sand. The body 



Fig. 22; SAND-ANEMONE, Long Island Sound. 



is of a delicate amber-brown, and is semi-translucent while the 

 long tapering tentacles are white or translucent-brown in color. 

 This species thrives well within a salt water aquarium. 



The Passion-Flower Anemone, (Coudylactis yassiflora), is found 

 in the West Indies and Bermudas, where it is abundant upon 

 broken rocky bottoms. It attains a large size, often being more 

 than a foot in diameter and six inches in height. It is a very 

 beautiful anemone. The body is vermillion, while the tentacles are 

 rich turquoise-green Avith purple tips. 



The Sand Anemone, f Halcampa producta, Fig. 22), is common 

 from South Carolina to Cape Cod in sandy or muddy beaches, the 

 elongate worm-like body being buried quite out of sight with only 

 the tentacles exposed. 



It is three or four inches long and about one-half of an inch 

 in diameter, but when disturbed it may contract so as to be not 

 more than two iuches in length. There are about twenty short, blunt 

 tentacles and twenty longitudinal rows of whitish warts along the 



