THE LASSO-THROWERS. 
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brilliant greens, and reds, and yellows, when, after 
lying closed like mere lumps of jelly, they open out 
into gorgeous flowers. 
The sea -anemone really stands higher in life 
than the hydra and its companions, for the tube 
of its body is double, one 
end being doubled back 
within the other so as to 
make a small sac hanging 
within a large one, while 
a hole at the bottom of the 
little sac or stomach opens 
into the body-cavity below, 
The wall of the body be- 
tween thetwobags is divided Section of a Sea-Anemone 
into a number of narrow (^*), having special darts, d, 
which shoot out when it is at- 
partitions (s, Fig. 25), upon tacked, m, Mouth, j, Stomach, 
the sides of which the eggs showing the partitions on the 
r Jt sides of which the egffs are 
of the young anemones are formed . c> Co il of lasso-threads 
formed, and OUt of which in the stomach. /, Tentacles 
the tentacles spring as hoi- ^f are crowded with lasso " 
low tubes. 
Yet it is more in the way of fleshy growth than 
in sagacity that the anemone has advanced, for in 
sensitiveness to light and power of movement he is 
far behind the floating jelly-fish. This is indeed to 
be expected, for in his quiet stay-at-home life he 
needs a strong muscular body, but not active senses, 
and so we find that while his lassos are powerful and 
many, his sight is only enough to lead him to move 
towards the light, and he shifts slowly along when he 
wishes to change his place, or floats with his disk 
upwards, without being able to choose his own path. 
