Life Beneath the Waves. 27 



sizes as well as colours, but I believe they 

 never attain the proportions of the Dahlia 

 just described the largest in my tank at 

 the present time is about four inches across 

 when fully expanded; the smallest, about 

 the size of a pin's head: the number of 

 these tiny creatures continually increases, 

 and very pretty do they look, dotted 

 about the aquarium either on the pebbles 

 or seaweed, with their little arms widely 

 extended. 



The tentacles of the Strawberry, and other 

 smooth anemones are very much longer 

 and thinner in proportion than those of the 

 Crassicornis family; and although perhaps 

 the Smooth Anemone is not quite so vora- 

 cious as the Dahlia, it is by no means of an 

 abstemious nature, for even the tiniest 

 specimen will readily seize and devour bits 

 of meat or fish, as well as living shrimps, 



