104 THICK-HORNED ANEMONE. 



each wrapped iu wet sea-grass ; over them another 

 layer of green algse should be placed, and so will 

 they be quite comfortable. 



The second species of Sea Anemone which I 

 shall describe is, in my opinion, the most magni- 

 ficent of the family, whether size or colour be 

 the criterion. It is possessed of a scientific name 

 hardly inferior in length to that of the smooth 

 anemone, being called by the learned, Bunodes 

 crassicornis. It is much too long a title for 

 every-day use, and so it is contracted into 

 "Crass." A portrait of a half-expanded crass 

 may be seen on plate e, fig. 9. 



This creature does not bear exposure to air and 

 heat so well as the smooth anemone, and must be 

 sought for in the shallows at low water. Some- 

 times at spring-tide a solitary specimen is seen, 

 high, dry, and discontented; but such is an ex- 

 ception; usually it may be found just beyond 

 ordinary low water-mark, expanding its gorgeous 

 tentacles, and waiting for the numerous crus- 

 taceans or fish that are always left in the tide- 

 pools. 



The colours of this animal are very varied, 

 hardly any two specimens being found of exactly 

 the same tint, and the magnitude of its fully 

 expanded disc is nearly equal to that of the crown 



