Sea Anemone
the popular name given to a number of animals of the subkingdom Cœlenterata and class Actino- given to a number of animals of the sub- SEA ANEMONE, the popular name zoa, including the genus Actinia and other genera. All sea anemones, however zoa, including the genus Actinia and varied in coloration or form, present the essential structure and appearance of a fleshy cylinder, attached by its base to a rock or stone, and presenting at its free extremity the mouth, surrounded by a circlet of arms or tentacles. With these tentacles, which may be very numerous, in some cases exceeding 200 in number, they seize and secure their food-small crustacea, mollusks, such as whelks, etc. -which they paralyze by means of the thread cells common to them with all Cœlenterata. The mouth leads into a stomach sac. appearance of the anemones in all their When fully expanded, the varieties of color is exceedingly beautiful.
But on the slightest touch the tentacles SEA EAGLE pelled by the mouth, and the animal, from presenting the appearance of a fully expanded flower, becomes a conical mass can be quickly retracted within the mouth of jel aperture, the fluids of the body are exthem, diœcious, that is, having the sexes situated in different indivi young are developed within the parent body, and appear in their embryo state young are developed within the parent jelly-like matter. They are, most of as free swimming ciliated bodies of an oval shape. The sea anemones resemble individuals. The resisting injuries and mutilation. They the Hydræ in their marvelous powers of are eaten as food in Italy, Greece and on various coasts. clergyman; born in Groton, Conn., Nov. SEABURY, SAMUEL, an American 30, 1729; was graduated at Yale in 1748; ceived deacon's and priest's orders in