ANIMAL LIFE IN THE MARINE AQrARIUM. 99 



their tentacles thrown out like the petals of a flower, but 

 employed, in that fair disguise, as arms for arresting 



Group of Actiniae. 



their unsuspecting prey, nothing could be less suspicious, 

 nor more bewitchingly deceitful. It is not at all mar- 

 vellous that they passed so long for oceanic vegetation, 



