FOURTH WEEK] June 151 



The sea-anemones first attract attention, showing as 

 splashes of scarlet and salmon among the olive-green sea- 

 weed, or in hundreds covering the entire bottom of a pool 

 with a delicately hued mist of waving tentacles. As the 

 water leaves these exposed on the walls of the caves, they 

 loose their plump appearance and, drawing in their wreath 



ANEMONES. 



of tentacles, hang limp and shrivelled, resembling pieces of 

 water-soaked meat as much as anything. Submerged in 

 the icy water they are veritable animal-flowers. Their 

 beauty is indeed well guarded, hidden by the overhanging 

 seaweed in these caves twenty-five feet or more below high- 

 water mark. 



Here in these beautiful caverns we may make aqua- 



