
258 OUR SEA-ANEMONES., 
process is evidently analogous to the wonderful powers of | 
restoration and development of mutilated and lost parts, 9 _ 
well known by experiments upon the fresh-water Hydra aud 
other low animals, some of which may be cut up in every 
direction into many pieces, and each part will still restore all _ 
- the parts that are lacking. It has, also, some analogy to the 
process of budding, so common Among the coral-polyps. _ 
The Star Sea-anemone* is another beautiful and interesting 
species, which may readily be domesticated in an aquarium, 
and proves very hardy in confinement. This species, il- 
stead of having a smooth body like the preceding, is covered 
with little wart-like pustules, arranged in vertical rows, which 
have the power of adhering firmly to foreign substances, 
such as bits of shell and sea-weed, with which it often: 
completely covers its body as to effectually conceal itself 
when contracted into a low cone among the rocks and gravet 
where it often dwells. But when it lives, as it frequently 
does near Eastport and about the rocky shores of the 
boring islands in the Bay of Fundy, in fissures and cav 
of ledges, overhung and protected by sea-weed, it usualy 
discards its foreign covering, which now becommg 
longer useful, is evidently regarded as a burden, © 
placed in an aquarium, even if covered with foreign ™ 
it very soon discards them and appears perfectly clean. q 
uppermost pustule of each row is larger than the © ETS, 
forms an inflated vesicle just below each tentacle. 
tacles, instead of being very small and numerous, 
Fringed-anemone, are comparatively few, rarely moi 3 
seventy-two in the largest specimens, but they are g% 
often more than an inch long. The mouth usually has 
form of a cross, with several prominent folds upon ' 
Its body is usually pale, translucent, olive-green, $9 
approaching flesh-color, and the disk and tentei 
lighter tint of the same colors, while the tentacles 
* Bunodes stella Verrill. Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural bea 
P- 16, Plate I, figs. 1 to 8. Also a fig pied in Tenney’s Zoŭlogy: 
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