150 THE PARASITIC ANEMONE. 



to the hands hy handling; and repeated washings with 

 soap, and even sorubbings with a brush, scarcely avail 

 to remove it. It is insufferably nauseous. 



In the accompanying picture the centre is occupied 

 by this Anemone, seated on the shell of the common 

 Whelk. From the same shell springs a branching 

 zoophyte, Sertularia ahietina, while a Brittle-star 

 {OpJdocoma rosula) is creeping by means of its long 

 snake-like arms over the lower part. Behind the 

 Actinia are seen three or four leaves of that lovely 

 sea- weed, Delesseria sanguinea ; a tuft of Gallitham- 

 nion roseum springs from a crevice in the rock 

 above the Sertularia ; a patch of the velvet-like Call. 

 Roihii is seen on the stone in the foreground, and 

 one of the mossy C. spongiosum in the rear. In 

 front of this last are some young leaves of Bhody- 

 menia pahnata, and a frond of the same species is 

 growing on the shell of the Whelk. 



