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dried, fell into the veffel, and after continuing in it fome 
hours, infedted and tinged the water in the fame man- 
ner as if hufkis of walnut or pieces of foot had been 
thrown into it, which had fuch an effedt upon the piece 
of anemony, that it threw up a great quantity of its in- 
te (lines. On the 30th it laid hold of the (ide again, but 
•was conliderably flirunk. In the beginning of Septem- 
ber it received a fecond injury, from another piece of 
anemony, which having been damaged in the fame man- 
ner by the former accident, fuddenly putrified and in- 
fedled the water: more of the intelfines were now dif- 
charged ; and this la(l accident, added to the former one, 
affedled the creature to fuch a degree, that it wafted gra- 
dually till the 8th of Odlober, when it was totally dif- 
folved. The fea-anemonies are undoubtedly fufceptible 
of irritation to a very great degree; but is all that hath 
been defcribed to be conftdered as the mere eftedl of irri- 
tability ? Allowing that to be the cafe, will it not follow, 
that we are more in the dark concerning that faculty than 
is 
quelques lieures, empoifonna et teignit I’eau, comme I’auroit fait le brou de noix 
ou un morceau de fuie : la partie d’anemone en foufrit,jufqu’a jetter dehors une 
quantite d’inteftins. Le 30 elle s’attacha encore, elle etoit alors diniinuee de 
volume. Ayant eu a foufrir dans les premiers jours de Septembre d’une autre 
partie d’anemone, qui avoit effaye le meme accident, et quL fe corrompant tout a 
coup gata I'eau, quelques intelfins lui fortirent de nouveau; ce dernier accident 
luite du premier I’alfedla fi fort, qu’elle diminua de plus en plus jufqu’au 8 0£tobre, 
qu’eile etoit totalement decompofee. Les anemones de mer font fans doute tres 
irrltables ; maispeut-on rapporter tout cequi vient d’etre expofe au feul effet de 
Virritabilite ? et (i cela etoit, cette faculte ne nous feroit-elle pas encore moins 
eonnue 
