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PLATE XLI 

 THE DAISY ANEMONE (2) 



This is not nearly such a common creature 

 as the smooth anemone, but you may sometimes 

 find it in the rock-pools at low-water on our 

 southern and western coasts. It is pale greyish 

 yellow in colour, and has an odd way of altering 

 its shape from time to time, so that sometimes 

 its body is long and slender, and sometimes it 

 is short and stout, while the disc may be long 

 and narrow one day, and almost round the next. 

 You can always tell it at once, if you should 

 happen to meet with it, by looking at its fleshy 

 feelers, or tentacles, which are marked with 

 rings of grey and white. 



PLATE XLII 

 THE THICK-ARMED ANEMONE (i) 



Where the coast is sandy and rocky too this 

 anemone is often rather common. Yet very few 

 people ever see it, because it nearly always 

 fastens itself quite low down on the rocks which 

 border the pools, so that at least half of its body 



