SEA ANEMONES. 131 
supported by a fine and slender stalk. Its cavity is closed by 
a concave layer, in the centre of which is a small square mouth, 
raised upon a little eminence. The sides of the corolla are divided 
into eight lobes, each carrying a bunch of miscroscopic tentacles, 
terminated by a glandular, rose-coloured bud. When you view 
TWO BELL LUCERNARIZE UPON A PIECE OF SEA-WEED. 
(Lucernaria octoradiata.) 
the charming creature sideways, the eight tufts of tentacles 
resemble the stamens of the myrtle. 
Doubtless there remains much to be said of the anemones and 
the creatures they resemble; as Charles Bonnet says, “Natural 
history is a vast country, of which we scarcely know the fron- 
tiers, and we want to fill in the map.” Man is always in a hurry, 
and will never wait. Eratosthenes and Hipparchus worked at 
the geography of the globe, but long centuries elapsed before 
Columbus and Vasco de Gama completed its survey. 
