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gular, clear granules, with some Alga-spores, Diatoms, and 

 here and there a cnida. 



I removed, with a tine needle's point and pliers, the 

 epidermis piecemeal. It was tough, allowing the Anemone 

 and its bit of rock (as large as a filbert) to be lifted out of 

 the water by it, without giving way. Its adhesion to the 

 lower part of the column was very firm. As I removed the 

 loose free tubular portion, (the animal having retreated far 

 in at the earliest assaults,) I discovered free within its 

 cavity about half-a-dozen egg-like germs, of a rich deep 

 orange colour; these, under the microscope, proved to be 

 covered with vibratile cilia, by means of which the germ 

 slowly swam. They were soft, ovate, '04 inch long, by 

 •025 wide. < hie. on being crushed, was resolved into a 

 mass of minute round clear granules, — fat-corpuscles ? 



When the whole epiderm was removed, I detached the 

 animal from its adhesion in a small hollow of the lime- 

 stone ; not without the discharge of a thick mucus from the 

 base, and the emission of a single acontium from the lower 

 part of the column. The animal was now reduced to an 

 abject flatness, and looked like a miniature >S. viduata in 

 its greatest contraction. 



In a day or two it attached itself to the rock again, and 

 • •ven crawled a little way. It now expanded freely, and 

 looked just like an ordinary Sagartia; but did not renew 

 the epidermis. 



The only locality as yet known for the species has been 

 already indicated: — Torquay, P.H. G. 



A. palliata. mueocincta. E. carnea. 



gausapata . 

 picta. 



