ACTINIA. 



This was likewife found by Dr. Gaertner in Cornwall. 



The ftem is quite fmooth, and inclining to a carnation 

 color. The outiide of the cup and body of the animal is 

 marked with white protuberances or warts, and from a 

 fiefh color changes infenfibly towards the border of the 

 cup, firft into purple, then into a violet, and at laft into 

 a dark brown. The feelers that furround the difk are al- 

 moft tranfparent, and of different lengths and colors ; 

 fome of them are of a pale afh color with brown fpots, 

 others of a chefnut color with white fpots. The difk or 

 upper part is formed like a ftar, compofed of variegated 

 rays of a beautiful mixture of brown, yellow, am color 

 and white. 



3. Actinia gemmacea. Studded Sea Star-flower. 



Actinia difciflora^ ten- This animal flower has a 



taculis ret rati Mb us fab- difk furrounded by femitran- 

 diaphanis, corf ore milia- fparent claws, which it has the 

 ribus gla?idulis longitudi- power of drawing in. Its body 

 ?ialiter flriato. is floated lengthways with 



thoufands of little glands. 



Hydra difciflora, te?itaculis retraBilibus jubdiaphanis^ 

 corpore cylindrico miliaribus glandulis Icngitudinaliter 

 flriato. Gaertner Phil. Tranf. Vol. 52. pag. 82. tab. 1. 

 hg. 4. 



This is likewife one of Dr. Gsertner's from the coaft of 

 Cornwall, and only to be met with in the fiflures of the 

 rocks. 



The color of the ftem is of a pale red near the bafe, the 

 reft of a yellow mixt with grey afh color. The glands of 

 the middle row are white, the reft of the fame color with 

 the ftem. The feelers are of a whitifh color, varied at the 



B 2 upper 





