It attaches itself to rocks and stones from low-water almost to high-water mark.

The tentacula--these feelers that look like the fringe of a flower--you see are nearly as long as the body is high, and nearly of the same color.

See, there is an azure line around the base, and on the base are dark green lines converging toward the centre; and around the edge of the mouth is a circle of azure tubercles, like turquoise beads of the greatest beauty.

I wish I could show them to you, but the mouth must be expanded in order to make them visible.

Ah, that is just the thing!" as someone standing near threw in a bit of meat which had the desired effect, the mouth of the anemone opening wide to receive it.
"Oh, they are very beautiful!" exclaimed Rosie, watching the appearance of the beadlike tubercles of which the captain had just spoken.
"Don't they eat anything but meat, papa ?" asked Neddie.
"Yes; crabs, sea-worms, and fish; the tentacula are furnished with minute spears with which they wound their prey and probably convey poison into the wounds." "I suppose this is salt water they are all in ?" Walter said enquiringly, and was told that he was correct in his conjecture.
On leaving the building they spent some time in examining its outside, finding its columns and arches wrought with calamus, fishes, frogs, serpents, and tortoises, making them very appropriate and beautiful..