1136 Marvels of the Universe 
principal facts relating to the structure and development of the Sea Anemones as a class, there 
is no need to go over the ground again. Most of the species represented in the present coloured 
plate are members of genera not found in northern waters; but though in form, size, and colour 
they may differ from those well-known on European coasts, their habits are much the same. The 
central Anemone at the top of the coloured plate is the Noble Cerianthus, and this is closely 
related to one of our rarer northern forms—Lloyd’s Cerianthus—figured at the foot of our 
former plate. 
In the Southern Seas, Anemones are largely associated with their relatives the Corals, and the 
coral-reefs shelter a great variety of species. Others, however, like the two illustrated in these 
pages, are to be sought on sand. Condylactis (see below) has a broad column six or seven inches 
long, but buries it to the full 
extent in sand, its base clinging 
to a rock or stone below. When 
alarmed it can fold up its ten- 
tacles and retire wholly below 
the surface. These tentacles 
have a remarkable knotted ap- 
pearance, reminding one of the 
seed-pods of the radish, where 
every seed causes a bulge in the 
narrow pods. In the Anemone 
these alternating swellings and 
constrictions are coloured with 
grey, brown, and olive-green, 
while the hidden column is 
usually bright scarlet. The ten- 
tacles are gathered into about 
six sets, an arrangement due to 
the puckering of the central 
disc, which includes the mouth, 
into as many lobes. Mr. Saville 
Kent found this species at Port 
Darwin and on the coast of 
Queensland. 
Aa SEED-POD ANEMONE. Dera One of the most striking 
An Anemone that buries its column in the sand and spreads its tentacles on facts in connection with these 
the surface. The column is bright scarlet, and the tentacles are mottled with grey- eenrones of Sarntiinean Cag 2 
brown and olive-green. Their knotted form gives them a resemblance to the seed- 
pods of the radish. (The photo is half the natural size.) the well-attested friendship be- 
tween certain of them and some fishes. The Anemone is named Stoichactis, and three species 
or varieties, discovered by Mr. Saville Kent, are shown at the foot of the coloured plate. The 
upper of the three was named after its discoverer, so we may refer to it as Kent’s Anemone. 
These Anemones are monsters, measuring elghteen inches or more across their expanded 
tentacle-fringed discs. But size is not the most remarkable thing about Kent’s Anemone ; there is 
the friendship to which we have alluded. Here is a huge Anemone, armed with hundreds of pliant 
tentacles which will bend over and adhere to any living prey sufficiently small to be accommodated 
by the greatly distensible mouth ; and yet there are certain fishes which it will allow to shelter, not 
merely under the lobes of its disc, but even in its mouth. When the temporary danger which 
caused its retreat has passed the fish reappears perfectly unharmed. Each species of Stoichactis 
has a distinct species of fish it takes under its protection. What service the fish renders in return 
