68 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 Puffiet.* b, Snake-locked anemone, t t, 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 
* Edivardsia calimorphia. f Sagartia viditata. 
% Sagartia bdlis. Sagartia troglodytes. || Bunodes g 
