SEA-WORMS AND SEA-ANEMONES 87 



A very handsome and large sea-anemone is common 

 on the East Coast, and is known as " crassicomis " (its 

 generic ncime is Bunodes). When distended it measures 

 as much as 4 inches across (Fig. 6, b). I have one 

 at this moment before me, expanded in a bowl of sea- 

 water. The tentacles are pale green or grey, banded 

 with deep red, and the body is blotched with irregular 

 patches of red, green, and orange. It attaches fine 

 pebbles and bits of shell to the surface of the body. 



