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Title: Ocean wonders: a companion for the seaside
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Damon, William Emerson, 1838-
Subjects: Marine animals Aquariums
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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owths, each somewhat slimmer than the original. Some species have a habit of throwing off portions oftheir base, which form into new individuals. The Actiniadianthus has this fissiparous habit, and others may suffervivisection from man with similar results. The severed por-tion may be without germs or ova; it is only necessary thatthe piece cut away should contain the three elementary tis-sues of the animal, i. e., the tegumentary, the muscular, and ACTINLE, SEA-ANEMONES, OR SEA-FLOWERS. 17 the ciliated lining membrane, so tenacious of life and full ofvivifying power are these delicate-looking creatures. It would take a volume to fully describe even a smallportion of the numerous varieties of sea-anemones. But,among those which have been most successfully preservedin aquaria, we may mention the parasite anemone, whichaffects the hermit-crab; and this, we may say, has beenproved to be a deliberate and not accidental partnership.Gosse relates that, having found an anemone on a shell de-
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Actinle. or Sea-Anemones, which live in the Sand and are often unattached.—1. PeacMa liastata, Gosse.—2. Edwardsia callimorpMa, Gosse. — 3. Ralccampachrysanthellum, Gosse—the last mostly buried in the sand. serted by a hermit-crab, he put it, still adhering to its oldhome, into his aquarium. It soon left the deserted abode,and stuck to the glass walls of its prison; but the crab beingplaced in the tank, and again taking possession of the shell,the anemone left the glass and returned to the back of thecrab and remained there. The cloak-anemone always seeks 18 THE OCEAN. to base itself on the inner lip of some univalve shell. Thesand-pintlet, Halocampa chrysanthellum, needs only sandenough at the bottom of the tank to burrow in; and, whenhe raises his beautiful head and looks about for food, heeasily pays for his lodging, which is certainly inexpensive. The globe-horn, Corynactis viridis, is of a beautiful yel-lowish emerald-green, sometimes of a translucent white, hav-ing umber

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