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mouths on either fide were regularly lhaped, but rather 
lefs than the ufual fize ; and in the folds, formed by the 
bafes, feveral limbs appeared, which feemed to belong to a 
third animal, incorporated in the two that were more ap- 
parent. The fequel will fliew, that this is not the only 
peculiarity I have obferved in this fpecies, which by its 
manner of propagating feems particularly calculated for 
producing monfters. The anemonies of this kind are 
commonly found adhering to the convex fliells of oyf- 
ters : they abound in the road of Havre de Grace, fo that 
I had no difficulty in procuring whate^"er number I chofe.. 
A vifcofe matter, like that which is feen on fifli newly 
caught, iffiies from themv I have opened between two or 
three hundred of a large fize, but I never found in any of 
them either whole or parts of animals; and yet as often 
as I offered them a piece of oyfler or mufcle, they would 
fwallow it. The large anemonies of this fpecies are gene- 
rally furrounded.by a multitude of fmall and middle-fized 
onesy 
faites, feulement un peu petltes. Dans les daplicatures que formoient les bafes on 
appercevoit des membres qui paroiffoient appartenir a un troifieme individu con- 
fondu dans les deux plus apparens. On verrapar la^fuite que ce n’eft pas la feule 
iingularite que ni’ait offerte cette efpece, qui paroit tres propre, par fa manlere de 
fe perpetuer, a donner des produdlions monftrueufes., C’eft ordinairement fur 
Fecaille la plus convexe des huitres que. ces anemones fe trouvent attachees: il y 
an a dans les rades-du Havre une quantite prodigicufe; il ne m’a done pas ete dif- 
iicile de m’en procurer. Elies- rendent une matiere. vifqueufe comme celle du 
poiffon' nouvellement peche. Quoique j’en aye ouvert de deux a trois cens fort 
groffes, je n’ai jamais trouve dedans aucun animal ou portion d’animal: mais 
lorfque je leur ai prefente des morceaux d’huitres ou de moules, dies les ont 
avales. Autour d’une grolTe anemone de cette efpece on en volt. ordinairement 
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