SEA-ANEMONES. 65 



(Metridium senilis], the Rosy Anemone (Sagartia rosea), the 

 Snake-locked (Cylista viduatd), the Globehorn (Corynactis 

 viridis], and others to be named hereafter. 



Now these, I think, make a fairly representative list, though 

 it by no means exhausts the British species. However, if the 

 reader can manage, during two or three visits to the seaside, 

 to find and identify the species named, he will be fairly well 

 acquainted with the Anemones of the shore, as distinguished 



THE BEADLET. 



from those found solely in deep water, which can only be 

 explored with the trawl or dredge. With this class we have 

 no concern in the present volume, as the deep water is beyond 

 our province ; except so far as certain of them may come 

 ashore attached to deep-water mollusko and crabs. 



The Beadlet being at once so widely distributed round our 

 shores, and so abundant wherever found, becomes very suit- 

 able for use as a type of the whole class. We are not to be 



