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Show Tho Sen Ancfnono. The sea anemone resembles in shapt a morning glory. Its mouth opens like the cup of that flower, and above it are seen a number of tentacles waving in the water. Its food consists of anything it can get, but generally it gets the minute mi-nute insects that float in tho sea. At any alarm it closes its cap and is then hardly hard-ly distinguishable from the rock on which it is rooted. It has a sot of sucker muscles that attach it so firmly to the rock that it will sometimes be torn in pieces rather thr tec co |