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obtained only by dredging in deep water. On these shores 
the two large Solasters, or Starfishes, with ten or twelve 
rays and beautiful colors, together with several other rare 
Starfishes, the Daisy Serpent Star,* the many-armed Basket 
Fish,¢ several large and curious Holothurians, the elegant 
Aleyonium, the much-sought Terebratula, many curious and 
beautiful Ascidians, among which the Cynthia,{ or “Sea 
Peach,” is one of the finest, and a great variety of rare 
shells, may all be obtained at low-water, during the extreme 
tides, together with a great abundance of the three Actinias 
above described. The Red, like the Star Sea-anemone, 
loves best the fissures and crevices of the rocks and ledges, 
that are thickly overgrown with fuci and other sea-weeds, 
which furnish a complete protection to the animals nestling 
among the rocks. Even among the lofty wharves of East- 
port there are ledges in the crevices of which hundreds of 
these Anemones may be found. ` 
The White-armed Sea-anemone,§ unlike the three pre- 
* 5 
+ Zhiopholis bellis Lyman. Plate 6, fig. 12. 
Lam n Agassizii Stimpson. 
fagana Vormis Rathke. ' ao 
ppa on Verrill. Proceedings of Boston Society of Natural 1Y, 
Vol. 
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