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pahnata that spring from the edges, you see the dark hi'own 
walls and bottom of the pool, — which is filled to the brim 
with quiet crystal water, — all studded over with the 
expanded disks of rosece, nivece, and veiiustce. Then indeed 
the sloping sides and bottom resemble a parterre, of wliich 
these are the lovely flowers ; while the tufts of green, 
brown and purple Algse that spring up everywhere around, 
some like moss, some like fantastically cut leaves, may well 
serve for the foliage of the “fairy paradise.” 
“ In hollows of the tide-worn reef, 
Left at low water, ghstening in the sun, 
Pellucid pools, and rocks in miniature. 
With their small fry of fishes, crusted shells. 
Rich mosses, tree-like sea-weeds, sparkling pebbles. 
Enchant the eye, and tempt the eager hand 
To violate the fairy paradise,” 
It is equally attractive in those imitations of such rock- 
pools, which we make in glass tanks and china pans for 
our drawing-rooms. But, like the other species of the 
group to which it belongs, it is a somewhat precarious 
tenant of the Aquarium. I have kept at different times a 
large number of specimens ; but none of them, so far as 
I can remember, survived a twelvemonth’s captivity. A 
dark-coloured mass of rock suits it best, serving as a back- 
ground for its rich crimson blossom. It loves the shadow, 
too ; and should therefore be placed on the side farthest 
from the light. A rough perpendicular surface is very 
appropriate for it. 
The Rosy Anemone occasionally protrudes the walls of 
the stomach, like B. c7'assicorn{s, which then overlap the 
disk in large furrowed pellucid lobes. It sometimes 
distends the tentacles till they are translucent, and then it 
is not uncommon to see the free ends of the acontia, lying 
within these organs in eoils, having penetrated through the 
open base of the tentacle from the intersepts of the body- 
