THE PALLID ANEMONE. 
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In my limited opportunities of investigating this Ane- 
mone, I found it impatient of light, and sufficiently loco- 
motive. A specimen, adhering to the upper surface of a 
flat stone, I put into a tea-saucer ; it immediately crawled 
to the edge of its stone, glided round, and passed under, 
till it was quite out of sight : it thus traversed about thrice 
its own length in a quarter of an hour. I then turned up 
the stone, and the animal presently crawled off to the 
bottom of the saucer : closed all the time, except that the 
tips of its tentacles were protruding. 
Its manner of crawling was somewhat curious. It gradu- 
ally distended a portion of its body, which then was swollen, 
and quite pellucid, having a strange appearance, owing to 
the white china shining through the tissues of the distended 
portion. Then this part, being raised from the bottom so 
as to be loose, was pushed out and took a fresh hold, and 
the other half was rapidly pulled up to it, when the ante- 
rior half began again to distend instantly, and proceeded 
as before. The progress could be easily watched with a 
lens, over the minute specks of the bottom. It was impos- 
sible to witness the methodical regulffi-ity of the process, 
and the fitness of the mode for attaining the end, without 
being assured of the existence of both consciousness and 
will in this low animal form. At night I found it had 
marched about three inches, or twenty-four times its own 
diameter, in six hours ; but its progress, while I watched 
it, was much more rapid than this. 
The only recognised habitat for Sagartia pallida is — 
Dartmouth, E. W. H. II. 
sphyrodeta. 
PALLIDA. 
dianthus. 
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