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Peachia, Gosse. 



Corpus eloiigatuin, subcylmdricuni, pyriforme, v. fusiforme, ditreniatum, 

 liberum ; tentacuUs paucis, brevibus (disci diametnim baud superanti- 

 bus), crassis, conicis, uniseriatis ; oviductu in tubercubjm papillosum 

 desinente. 



1. Peachia hastata, corpore roseo lineis sequalibus pallidis, tentaculis 

 12 albo-hyalinis seriebus 2 parallelis macularum sagittatarum brun- 

 nearum notatis, disco circulis duobus macularum bruiinearum V-for- 

 mium cincto, oviductiis papillis numerosis aggregatis, 



2? P.? CHRYSANTHELLUM, corpore cyliudrico albido lineis inaequaliter latis, 

 tentaculis brunneo-annulatis. 



Mr. Gosse considers the principal interest of this form to consist 

 in the decided approach which it makes to a higher type than that 

 of Actinodermata, assisting, together with the genus Edwardsia of 

 M. Quatrefages, to diminish the interval between the Actinice and 

 Holothurida. Of the genus Edwardsia he observes that there are 

 two British species, one of which was described and figured by him- 

 self, in the 'Annals of Natural History ' for Sept. 1853, under the 

 name of Scolanthus callimorphus, which genus he is now convinced 

 ought to be abolished ; and the other, described in a letter from Mr. 

 Kingsley, appears to be identical with Edwardsia Beautempsii, Quatr. 



The author then proceeds to remark on the importance of still 

 further dividing the large remainder of species, which, even after the 

 separation of the genera already constructed from it, still remain 

 united under the name of Actinia. After discussing the principles 

 on which he conceives that this division may be most properly 

 founded, he goes on to establish the following generic types, adding 

 after each the names of the British, and of some of the exotic species 

 belonging to it. 



Actinice basi adhaerentes ; tentaculis conicis facile retractilibus ; sphesrulis 

 marginalibus nullis. Corpus everrucosum, Jilainenta capsulifera e poris 

 emittens ; Jilis urticantibus brevibus, pilorum fasciculo dense armatis. 



Sp. Brit. — Act. viduata (=anguicoma, Price), Troglodytes^ Aurora, 

 Candida, rosea, nivea, venusta, parasitica, Bellis, Dianthus ; forte etiam 

 A. aurantiaca et pulchella, Jord. 



The following exotic species, figured by Mr. Dana in the Zoophytes 



. of the American Exploring Expedition, seem to be referable to this 



genus, viz. A. Primula ; the beautiful decor ata and Fuegensis, both 



allied to our Bellis ; and Achates, reticulata and Paumotensis, which 



are evidently allied to Dianthus. 



BuNODEs, Gosse. 



Actinice sphaerulis marginalibus nullis; corpus verrucosum ; cute coriacea, 

 filamentis missilibus nullis ; Jilis urticantibus longis simplicibus ; ten- 

 tacuUs plerumque crassis, conicis, obtusis. 



Sp. Brit. — A. gemmacea, Thallia, clavata, crassicornis, monile (forte 

 crassicornis ]\m\ov)1 Chrysoplenium'i, alba'i, miniatal 



Of exotic species, A. Diadema, pluvia, Gemma, Artemisia of Dana's 

 Zoophytes, probably belong to this genus. 



