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fie a water, which are eighteen or twenty inches in: 
circumference. Their cloak or outward fkin is 
rough like Ihagreen, or fuli of little knobs. See 
Tab. XVI. fig. io. and Tab. XVII. fig. 1 1. and I2» 
where they are (hewn in the natural fize. They 
remain in the fand, flicking to the loofe flones in 
it, and flretch out their limbs to the top, in order 
to lay hold of their prey, as foon as it touches the 
fuperficies of the fand. The flower of poppies is 
faid to be the plague and diftrefs of painters, to re- 
prefen t exactly the variety and brilliancy of its co- 
lours ; the fame may be faid of the Sea-Anemonies 
.of this larger fpecies. The purefl: white, carmine, 
and ultramarine, would hardly be bright enough to 
paint them properly. The limbs of fome of them 
are of a moderate or dim colour, at the fame time 
that the cloak is made up of the brighiefl colours. 
The third fpecies fee ms to deviate a little more 
from the fecond, than this from the firft. Its body, 
not unlike for fhape and colour to the flalk of a 
mufh- 
membres etendus forment une circonference de 18 a 20 pouces ; 
leur robe (la peau exterieure) eft c.hagrinee ou remplie de 
boutons ; . voyez la PI. XVI.. Fig. 10. & XVII. Pig. 11. 12. ou- 
elles font reprefentees de grandeur naturelle et moienne. Elies 
reftent dans le fable, atachees a des cailloux, et etendent leurs 
membres a. la, fuperficie pour faifir la proye q-ui Jes touche. 
S’ii eft vrai que les totes de pavots faftent le defefpoir des-- 
peintres par la variete et l’eclat de leurs couleurs, on pourroit 
en dire autant des Anemones de Mer de cette grande efpece y 
le beau blanc, le carmin, i’outremer, fuftroient a peine. Quei-- 
ques unes ont les- membres d’une couleur douce et eteinte,. 
tandis que la robe offre des couleurs riches et fort hautes. 
La troifieme efpece femble s’ecarter un peu plus de la fecor.de 
que cells ci. de la premiere 5 die eft auifi .dans le fable, font 
corps- 
