Ocean Flowers and Lamps 



border of fleshy tentacles, and mounted on a 

 thick fleshy stalk or cylinder, which is usually 

 either fastened to a rock or buried in the sand. 



They vary in size between half-an-inch and 

 more than a foot in diameter. A splendid 

 specimen, to be found in the Pacific, is fourteen 

 inches across the disc. 



These creatures are not without a limited 

 power of moving from place to place ; though, 

 in the case of most " attached" anemones, move- 

 ment is extremely slow. A few kinds do not 

 attach themselves at all, but rove freely through 

 ocean-waters, after the fashion of their cousins 

 the jelly-fishes. 



One particular species, which seems to ap- 

 prove of change of scene, and yet not to love 

 exertion, has hit upon a clever dodge. 



When quite young it fixes itself upon the shell 

 of a certain kind of crab ; and as it grows larger, 

 it gradually covers the whole back of the crab. 

 Where the crab goes, the anemone goes ; when 

 the crab rests, the anemone rests. Oddly- 

 enough, the crab does not appear to object to 

 his burden. 



This is no mere accidental comradeship, seen 

 only in rare cases ; for that special description 

 of crab is never seen without its friend the 



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