150 GLAUCUS ; OR, 



their color is equally brilliant. One is a bril- 

 liant blood-red ; another a delicate sea-blue, 

 striped with pink ; but most have the disc and 

 the innumerable arms striped and ringed with 

 various shades of gray and brown. Shall we 

 get them? By all means, if we can. Touch 

 one. Wliere is he now ? Gone ? Vanished into 

 ah", or into stone? Not quite. You see that 

 knot of sand and broken shell lying on the rock, 

 where your dahlia was one moment ago. Touch 

 it, and you will find it leathery and clastic. That 

 is all which remains of the live dahlia. Never 

 mind ; get your finger into the crack under him, 

 work him gently but firmly out, and take him 

 home, and he will be as happy and as gorgeous 

 as ever to-morrow. 



Let your Actiniae stand for a day or two in 

 the dish, and then, picking out the liveliest and 

 handsomest, detach them once more from their 

 hold, drop them into your vase, right them with 

 a bit of stick, so that the sucking base is 

 downwards, and leave them to themselves 

 thenceforth. 



These two species (Jilesemhryanthemum and 

 Crassicornis) are quite beautiful enough to give 

 a beginner amusement : but there are two others 



