THE DAISY ANEMONE. 
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narrow shallow pools, the bottoms of which run down into 
thin crevices. In these crevices reside the Daisies in 
question, in great numbers, and some of them of very large 
dimensions, as three inches in diameter, when fully ex- 
panded. They are, however, as I have said above, mostly 
so crowded together, that they are not able to spread their 
blossom-disks fully, but are fain to accommodate each 
other, by allowing the protrusions of one sinuous and frilled 
margin to fit into the recesses of another. They thus con- 
stitute lines of variegated frills, in which the individuals 
cannot be separated by the eye of the beholder ; and though 
no brilliant hues appear, there is sufficient contrast between 
the black and the white, the blue and the grey, all 
puckered and convoluted as the fringed outlines are, to 
•gratify the eye. 
Nor are these very difficult of possession. For the con- 
glomerate, though hard, yields readily to the chisel, and 
the edges of the crevices present in many cases fair angles 
for the blows of the experienced collector. 
The Daisy is not unfrequently brought up in the dredge 
from a few fathoms’ depth. In Weymouth Bay I have 
repeatedly obtained it thus, but still maintaining its wonted 
troglodyte habit; for its favourite domicile is one of the 
deep angular chambers formed by the leafy expansions of 
that fine coral-like Polyzoan, Eschara foliacea. 
But Weymouth possesses a breed of the species which 
deviates much more widely from the normal habit. It is 
the variety which I have called sorclida, having an eye not 
less to its filthy dwelling-place than to its dirty colour. 
•The broad expanse of fetid mud, either wholly bare at 
low tide, or covered only with a foot or two of water, that 
floors the two inlets called the Fleet and the Backwater, 
is studded with multitudes of these dingy Anemones. 
The soft slimy mud affords no proper surface for adhesion ; 
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