When the tide falls, you can walk among the rocks and pools by the sea, and find Anemones in plenty.

Thus, among the Romans, the first anemone of the year, when gathered with this form of incantation, "I gather thee for a remedy against disease," was regarded as a preservative from fever; a survival of which belief still prevails in our own country: "The first spring-blown anemone

You cannot easily pull it from the rocks without harming it; but you will find other Anemones on stones and shells; and these you can put in a jar of sea-water, with some weed, and carry home to examine later on.

The anemone at the mouth of the shell keeps guard at the weakest spot of the hermit's armor.

There was a bed of anemones under the windows, at one end of the house; and a bed of anemones is a treasure in our climate.

The Celt could write: "More yellow was her head than the flower of the broom, and her skin was whiter than the foam of the wave, and fairer were her hands and fingers than the blossoms of the wood anemone amidst the spray of the meadow fountain.

What a little goose you are, Vernon!" Vernon made no reply, but was putting away his sea-anemones with a sigh, when in came Russell to fetch Eric to the cricket.

and as I was in the Piazza Navona, buying oranges, I heard him calling from a long way off, 'Ho Anita, my Anita, here are anemones for your beautiful Signora with the bright hair.'

For ten years the new anemone from the East was to be seen no where in Europe but in Monsieur Bachelier's parterre.

"Here are your snowflakes on stems, mamma," she continued, dropping anemones over her mother's hands, one by one;"that is what Mr. Raleigh calls them.