She bowed her face over the flowers—the freesias so sweet and spring-like, the scarlet anemones flaunting over the table.
The stem of a good anemone should be eight or nine inches in height, with a strong upright stalk.
There was a bowl of freesias and scarlet anemones on the table.
Invertebrates collected have included varieties of sponge, anemone, annelid, mollusc, crustacean, asteroid, ophiuroid, echinoid, holothurioid and tunicate.
Number one runs about naming flowers, prickly pear, anemones and cyclamens, black almond trunks: from iron wood, he says, resurrection, clouds of blossom.
In the tree of life, already at the low evolutionary level of cnidarians, say in a medusa, or in a sea anemone, there are primitive nervous systems.