THE CAVE-DWELLING ANEMONE. 91 



i. Bubicunda. Agrees with o in disk and tentacles (nearly); but ground- 

 colour of tentacles rose-red : column dull buff. (Torquay.) 



k. Lilac I net. Column greyish-drab with faint longitudinal bauds of 

 darker. Disk buff, the radii separated by delicate black lines. Tentacles 

 an exquisite light lilac,* with a white cloud at the lower part, succeeded 

 by a strongly -denned black J$- (Boulogne.) 



X. Melanoleuca. Column greenish drab. Bisk whitish, becoming 

 orange on the central region. Tentacles divided into well-defined alter- 

 nate groups of semi-pellucid white and bluish black ; about five groups of 

 each colour, but not quite regular in extent : those of each hue are con- 

 spicuously ringed with a darker tint, aud have the B thick and strongly 

 marked. (Morecambe Bay ; Boulogne.) Plate V. fig. 5. 



fx. Prasina. Disk and tentacles transparent crown-glass-green ; primary 

 radii with a white spot, secondary with a white line. Lip white. (Firth 

 of Forth ? Dr. T. S. Wright in litt.) 



*** "Without characteristic marks on disk or tentacles. 

 (Column drab.) 



v. Flaiicoma. Disk grey-buff, more positive on the lip ; tentacles warm 

 orange-buff; remarkably short, blunt, and stiffly set. (Boulogne.) 



£. Auricoma. Disk pale orange, with an undefined dash of white on 

 some of the radii. Tentacles long, slender, pellucid rich orange. (More- 

 cambe Bay.) 



o. Lima. Disk warm oi-ange, with the central fourth white. Tentacles 

 elongated, opaque white, with an unbroken line of pellucid white running 

 down each side. (Boulogne. F. H. W. in litt.) 



ir. Xo.v. Disk and tentacles black : the latter much attenuated, with an 

 unbroken line of grey running down each side. (Boulogne. F. H. W. in 

 litt.) 



p. Eclipsis. Disk black. Tentacles opaque brilliant orange. (Morecambe 

 Bay. F. H. W. in litt.) 



ff. Nycthetmeva. As p in every respect, except that the black of the disk 

 ends abruptly at half-radius, the central portion being light grey. (More- 

 cambe Bay. F. H. W. in litt.) 



t. Hesperus. Wholly pure white ; gradually acquiring colour in a con- 

 finement of some months. (Lundy. W. Brodrick in litt.) 



v. Nohilis. Disk deep violet-blue. Tentacles rich orange. (Cheshire 

 Coast. Lady Cust in litt.) 



From the above list it will be readily perceived that 

 there is no species of our native Anemones that approaches 



* I describe it as I see it ; but Mr. West, to whose liberality I am indebted 

 for this, as for so many specimens of this species, informs me that it is 

 now in a deteriorated condition. Originally it was a very rich full lake or 

 dark lilac. 



