CEUAR AE Re oc ik. 
SEA ANEMONES. 
PICTURE to yourself a large and thick polype, having instead of 
the six modest feelers, a great number of brightly coloured ten- 
tacles, forming a kind of little collar—and you have an idea of 
SEA ANEMONES, 
the sea anemone; for the fresh-water polype seems to be a crude 
outline of this beautiful zoophyte. 
The name anemone is well chosen; for this perfect polype 
much more resembles a flower than an animal. The poets looked 
upon them as the roses amongst zoophytes. The charming and 
timid creatures are also called act/ni@, as indicating their disposition 
to form rays or stars, dxtives being the Greek for “rays.” They are 
