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their body or limbs fwells, at times, very confide- 
rably, at tne expence of the reft. The figures and 
the particular obfervations will fupply what is 
wanting here. With regard to their colours, they 
vary amazingly. Every hue of purple, green, 
brown and violet is to be feen blended together. 
A great number of them are of one uniform co- 
lour ; whilft others are fpotted either fymetrically, 
asinftripes, or in an irregular, but always pleafing, 
manner. Moft of them have, round their bafis, a 
blue or white ftreak, broader or narrower, which 
produces a fort of ring. When many of thefe ani- 
mals are put together at the bottom of a flattifti 
and wide veflel, the whole appears as a bed of Ane- 
monies. 
The Sea-Anemonies of the fecond fpecies are 
pretty nearly fhaped out as thofe of the firft, but 
they are much larger. 1 have fome by me, kept in 
fea 
corps ou de leurs membres s’augmente quelquefcis confide- 
rablement aux depends desautres. Les figures et le detail des 
obfervations fupleeront a ce qui manque ici. Quant a leurs 
couleurs elles varient etonnenment ; toutes les nuances de poup- 
pre, de verd, de brun, de violet y font employees et combinees. 
Un grand nombre font partout d’une meme couleur, d’autres 
ont des taches fimetriquement rangees formant des rayes, ou 
ineme diftribuees irregulierement, mais toujours d’une maniere 
agreable. Prefque toutes ont autour de leur bafe une bande 
bleiie ou blanche, plus ou moins etroite, qui y forme une bor- 
dure. Lorfqu’on en a beaucoup d’ouvertes dans le fond d’un 
vafe plat et large, il femble cf’un parterre d’anemones, 
Les Anemones de Mer de la leconde efpece font a peu pres 
formees comme celles de la premiere, mais elles font beau- 
coup plus grandes, J’en conferve dans I’eau de mer, dont les 
membres 
