ACTINIA. 5 



The 4 following fpecies were fent to the Earl of Hillf- 

 borough, by Mr. Greg from Dominica. They were pre- 

 ferved in fpirits, fo that their color and true appearance, 

 when alive, cannot well be known, which occafions their 

 defcriptions, particularly the three laft, to be lefs exact. 



5. Adlinia fociata. Cluftered Animal flower. Tab. r. 



Fig. 1.2, 



Actinia tenuis, tuba- This animal flower is of a 



formis, capitulo fubglobofo flender make and trumpet 



tentaculato, ex tubulo car- fhape, with a roundifh head 



nofo adhcere?tti prolifera. furnifhed with circles of claws ; 



from its bafe are produced 

 flefhy adhering tubes, and 

 from thence its progeny arifes. 



Tab. 1. Fig. i. 2. 



ASiinia fociata. Ellis Phil. Tranf. Vol. 57. pag. 436. 

 tab. 19. fig. 1. 2. 



Though I have had the clutters of this animal drawn 

 erect on a rock, I am perfuaded from the flendernefs of 

 their make, their fituation would be more natural, if 

 they were inverted. 



Perhaps thefe may be the clufters of Waterbottles, 

 which Hughes in his Natural Hiftory of Barbadoes, p. 296. 

 mentions to grow to the uppermoft part of the rock, 

 where his animal flowers are found. The natural fize 

 of a clufter of this animal flower may be feen in Plate 1. 

 fig. 1. At A, one of them is expanding its claws. Fig. 2. 

 exprefTes one of them differed lengthways, and magni- 

 fied to fhew the ftrudhire of the infide. B in fig. 1. 

 is the beginning of a young one growing up out of the 

 tube at the bafe. 



6. Adinia 



