PART II. 



THE tanks wherein anemones are displayed 

 will doubtless be some of the most pictu- 

 resque and attractive in the Brighton 

 Aquarium, for although when out of water 

 the anemone is a shrivelled mass, unsightly 

 to the eye, and flabby and unpleasant to 

 the touch, its appearance when in water 

 fully justifies its appellation of " Flower of 

 the Sea." 



There are, I believe, twenty known kinds 

 of British Anemones, some of them greatly 

 outrivalling others in point of beauty, as 

 well as in their resemblance to flowers. 



The Dahlia Anemone is a beautiful 



