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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. 
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Group of Anemones. 
a a, Painted Pufflet.* 5, Snake-locked anemone, f c, Daisy anemone. J 
d 9 Cave anemone. § e, Gem Pimplet.il 
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 crassicornis), and when he afterwards 
* Edwardsia calimorphia. f Sagartia viduata. 
X S&gartia bellis. § Sagartia troglodytes. \\ Bun odes gemmaceeu 
