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second rows are crossed at the foot by two undefined dusky bars, some- 

 times obsolescent, of wbich the upper is the thicker. 

 Mouth. Lip white ; or light pink. 



Size. 



It occasionally rises to a height of an inch and a half; and the diameter 

 of the tentacular flower is about an inch. 



Locality. 



The south-west corner of Great Britain : in holes and rock -pools at low 

 water-mark. 



Varieties. 



a. Vinosa. The condition described above, which is that to which the 

 specific name rosea was first applied, and which appears to be the most 

 widely-spread variety. (Plate i. fig. 4.) 



/3. Pidcherrhna. Column cream-white, merging towards the summit 

 into pale olive. Disk cream-white, with dark lines between the radii. 

 Tentacles crimson-lake, with several (more or less distinct) darker bars ; 

 those of the first row thicker, usually carried erect, or arching inwards. 

 (Plate i. fig. 6, which is copied from a beautiful drawing with which 

 Professor Jordan has favoured me.) 



y. Erythrops. Column dark brown, inclining to olive, with conspicuous 

 pale suckers. Disk brilliant orange-scarlet. Tentacles rather short, stout, 

 bright rose-lilac, the bands across the foot well defined. A very lovely 

 variety, which I have found near Torquay. 



5. Demetana. Small and low, rarely exceeding half an inch in height or 

 diameter. Column rich red-brown, with inconspicuous suckers. Disk 

 crimson, often with a tinge of orange, usually more or less puckered at the 

 margin. Tentacles crimson, short, crowded, resembling a compact fringe. 

 (Plate i. fig. 5.) 



For the first and second of these varieties, I have retained 

 the names proposed respectively by Mr. Holdsworth and 

 Professor Jordan, who described them as species under 

 these appellations. I am quite sure that both must be 

 referred to this species. The fourth is the form so abun- 

 dant on the Pembroke coast ; a very marked variety, to 

 which I have assigned a name alluding to the &r)/j,7]Tai, 

 the ancient inhabitants of that part of Wales. All are 

 beautiful ; but perhaps pulcherrima, as its name imports, is 

 the loveliest of all. 



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