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LIFE AND HER CHILDREN. 
His fishing and feeding powers, on the contrary, 
are very great. Any one who has placed his finger 
among the tentacles of a sea-anemone will have felt 
how they cling to it, so that it is not always easy 
Fig. 26. 
Group of Anemones. 
a a, Painted Pufflet.* 6, Snake-locked anemone. t f, Daisy anemone. J 
d, Cave anemone. e, Gem Pimplet|| 
to draw it away. The touch has in fact burst a 
number of lasso-cells, and the threads have pierced 
the flesh, though they are too fine to give pain. Mr. 
Gosse once cut off a piece of his own skin with a 
razor and put it to the tentacles of the dahlia 
anemone (Tealia crassicomis\ and when he afterwards 
* F.drvardsia calimnrf<hia. t Sagartia vidnata. 
J Szgarlia bulis. % ~<' <'' tia troglodytes. || Diutuda ^i/tinacea. 
