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the stomach, was so placed as to divide it completely into 

 two halves ; so that the body, stretched tensely over, had 

 become thin, and flattened like a pancake. All communi- 

 cation between the inferior portion of the stomach and the 

 mouth was of course prevented ; yet, instead of emaciating 



Fig. 193. 



1, Actinia rubra, Sea marigold, near which is one shown retracted. 2, Actinia 

 bellis Daisy sea-anemone (a side view of the animal). 



and dying of atrophy, the animal had availed itself of what 

 had undoubtedly been a very untoward accident, to in- 

 crease its enjoyrr.ents and its chances of double fare. A 

 new mouth, furbished with two rows of numerous tenta- 

 cula, was opened up on what had been the base, and led to 

 the under-stomach : the individual had, indeed, become a 

 sort of Siamese twin, but with greater intimacy and extent 

 in its unions." The following observations made by 

 Dicquemare on these rivals of the weather-wise leeches, 

 are both interesting and curious to sea-shore residents : 

 "My very earliest observation showed that the sea-ane- 

 mones feel, and prognosticate within doors, the different 

 changes of temperature in the atmosphere. I had not 

 leisure at that time to form tables of their various indica- 

 tions ; but I have since done it. This fact, if applied to 

 practice, might be of .use in the formation of a sea-baro- 

 meter an object of no small importance, which several 



