When the snake-locked anemone closes up, however, you would never know it for the same creature, for it not only draws its long tentacles back into its body and tucks them away out of sight, but contracts the body itself until it is almost flat. Unless you looked very carefully at the rock to which it was clinging you would never notice it at all.

This anemone is not a very common one, and is chiefly found on the rocky coasts of Devonshire and Cornwall. In colour it is almost white.