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LITTLE FOLKS 
SEA FLOWERS. 
You would hardly go to the sea for flowers, but there is a 
family of Zoophytes which so much resemble our land flowers, that 
they are called Sea Anemones — rather an absurd name, by the way, 
for they do not look half so much like Anemones as they do like 
daisies or dandelions. You see one kind in the picture. On the 
left, you see it fully expanded, showing its lovely petal-like arms, 
and on the right, as it looks when half shut up. These flowers can 
shut up when they like, and they will do so very quickly if you 
come near them. 
