46 SEA-SHORE LIFE 
It lives in dark situations on the under sides of stones, or upon the 
shaded piles of wharves 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, (Condylactis passi flora), 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 with purple tips. 
The Sand Anemone, ( Haleampa 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 inches in length. There are about twenty short, blunt 
tentacles and twenty longitudinal rows of whitish warts along the 
