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more ordinary variety. A. negleda. Leidy. — Body, when 

 closed, obpyriforra, or shortly cylindrical ; when expanded, 

 cylindrical, about an inch in length by one fourth of an 

 inch in breadth ; smooth, translucent, olive green. Mouth, 

 elliptical, with the lip composed of six greenish-white lobes. 

 Tentacles, numerous, up to half an iuch in length, brighter 

 olive green than the body. In the mud of a souud in 

 the vicinity of Atlantic City." 



The most of the Anemones found on the coast of and 

 adjaceut to New York have not been yet studied ; and I 

 shall here leave them and conclude this chapter with an 

 extract from an article published in the third volume of 

 Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, entitled " An afternoon among 

 the tenants of the deep " — which speaks of the Anemones as 

 follows : " They are greedy creatures, and the fishermen 

 have reason to dread their ravages, for they sometimes get 

 into their crab or lobster pots, and will wind their tenta- 

 cular round a fine crab or lobster, or whatever they may 

 lay hold of, and suck out every particle of its juices, 

 casting out the empty shell from their devouring maw, when 

 they have absorbed the whole of its contents. In some seas, 

 these creatures grow to so enormous a size as to be able 

 to inflict serious injury ; they have been known to seize 

 a man ; and an instance was lately told me by a young 

 Indian officer, of a friend of his, who, when bathing, had 

 his thigh taken hold of by one of these horrible creatures, 

 from which he sustained severe injury ; and was released 

 only by having the animal cut from him piecemeal. Such 

 dangers, however, do not exist in our seas, nor could they 

 be anticipated from the lovely little actinia; in the tanks." 



