SEA-Anemony, the same with ANIMAL-flower, a species of marine animals of the nature of polypi, very much resembling vegetables in their method of generation. In these creatures the young grow out from their sides, and when they are arrived at a certain size fall off from the parent. They are multiplied likewise by cutting them in pieces. In some the young ones are produced from the inside, and after a certain season are ejected by the mouth, which will also be the case at any time if the old one is put to great pain. The Abbé Diequemarre has published three essays on these animals, in the 64th and 67th vol. of the Philosophical Transactions, in which a great number of experiments are related concerning them. In his last essay he mentions a species of sea-anemones which propagate by tearing off small shreds from their own bodies, each of which thro' time becomes a perfect animal. See ANIMAL-flower.