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Explanation of tab. vi. which reprefents a group of 
fea-anemonies of the fourth fpecies, adhering to an 
oyfter-fhell. 
Fig. I. A contracted anemony of the natural and 
middling lize adhering to the oyfter-lhell. Fig. 2^ 
Anemonies united to the fame trunk, compared in the 
eflay to the letter Y. At its balis a little Hired appears 
ready to be torn off in order to become a new anemony. 
Fig. 3. and 4. Two young anemonies moderately ex- 
panded, in the middle of which the mouths appear. 
Fig. 5. An anemony, fomewhat more grown, on which 
the projecting rim appears. Fig. 6. Eight fmall ane- 
monies, two of which adhere together, as do alfo two 
others, which, however, are upon the point of being fe- 
parated by the contraction of the part that unites them.. 
Other fmall anemonies, of different fizes, are feen upon 
the oyfter-fhelL 
Explication des Figures. La planche reprefente un groupe d’anemones de mer 
de la quatrieme efpece, attacliees fur une huitre. 
Fig. I. Anemone de groffeur naturelte et moyenne attachee fur I’huitre. et 
fennee. Fig. 2. Anemones reunies fur une meme tige, elle eft defignee dans 
le memoire par la forme d’un Y. On volt au.bord de fa bafe un petit lambeau 
pret a en etre dhache pour devenir une anemone. Fig. 3. et 4. font deux 
jeunes anemones plus ou molns otivertes, au milieu defquelles on remarque la 
bouche. Fig. 5. Anbnone un peu plus forte, dont on voit le bourlet. 
Fig. 6. Ce font huit petites anemones, dont deux font adherentes enfemble 
deux autres le font auffi, mais pretes a fe feparer par I’etranglement de la partie qui 
k$ unit. On remarque fur i’huitre d’autres anemones plus ou.moins petites. 
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