In Coral-Land 
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flowers were shaped like chrysanthemums 
with rows of fringed petals, some were 
shorter and stouter, like dahlias, and all 
formed a mass of brilliant color, pink, 
purple, orange, blood-red, and sea-blue, 
striped with pink. 
Never had Sammy seen such a sight as 
this bed of Anemones, and, struck with 
admiration, he stopped to examine them 
more closely. But the experienced Pilot 
warned him to be careful. 
“ They look very fine,” said he, 
“ but they are not to be trusted.” You 
know, of course, that the Sea-Anemones, 
like almost all flowers and plants which 
grow in the ocean, are living animals, 
polyps, we call them. The Anemones are 
polyps, and the coral big and little, living 
and dead is being made, or has been made 
by polyps. 
“ You see that bed of pink flowers over 
