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The Natural Hiftory of the Book IX. 
‘This Animal, and the Cave containing it, are delineated in Plate XXIV. 
Fig. I. isn ee 
- The Savy. BLuiso ANIMAL FLOWER... 
HESE grow in Clofters upon the Rocks between High and Low- 
water Mark. ‘The Edges of each are compofed of a circular Bor- 
der of fmall fiftular thread-like brown. Petals (if I may fo call them) fur- 
rounding a fungous Subftance, of about the Breadth of an Ezgli/h Silver 
‘Two-pence, and of a bluifh-green Colour. This Species is by far lefs quick 
in avoiding approaching Danger than thofe already defcribed ; confequent- 
ly their Organs of Senfation are lefs perfect ; for they will {ufter themfelves 
to be touched, before their guardian Petals or Arms clofe together to de- 
fend or preferve the Whole. I have obferved a larger Sort of the fame 
Species, having their brown Petals or Arms longer than the above-de- 
feribed, as well as of an irregtlar unequal Length: ‘Thefe likewife gradu- 
ally leflen in their fenfitive Perfection, and are generally found at fome 
Diftance under Water, whereas the former, in Neap Tides, are often for a 
fhort time expofed to the Air, and that feemingly without any Prejudice. 
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