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and to continue detached. In these last two particulars 

 they approach the Ilyantliidcc. Coccinea and parasitica 

 are the links of connexion between the first group and this, 

 though not inter se. In the event of re-distribution, this 

 group might receive the name of Cylista, from kvXlo), to 

 wallow about. 



Bellis will probably be considered by many as worthy 

 of generic separation. The slenderness and elongation of 

 its column when fully expanded, the salver-like expanse of 

 its disk, the small size, great number, and crowded arrange- 

 ment of its tentacles, the undulation of its margin, as well 

 as the peculiarities of its colouring, isolate it strongly from 

 its fellows. Miniata, from the undulation of its margin, 

 and parasitica, from the craterine form of its disk, and the 

 multitude of its tentacles, are connecting links with it in 

 their respective groups ; while bellis looks, as has been 

 already intimated, towards other genera, as Actinoloba, 

 Aiptasia, &c. It might be called Scyphia, from cvcu^o?, a 

 drinking-bowl. 



Finally, chrysosplenium is the most aberrant form that I 

 have included in the genus, so far as I am able to judge of 

 its peculiarities without personal inspection. Its affinities 

 I have just enumerated. If I had isolated it generically, I 

 would have named it Chrysoela, " that which is studded 

 with golden nails," from xpvabs, gold, and 77X09, a nail. 



