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tearing. The filament had proceeded for about three 

 inches in a line but slightly curved, it had then made 

 a right angle for about an inch, then another, and 

 another, so as to inclose a square area, across which a 

 branch joining the two sides had been sent forth, 

 dividing the area equally. From this creeping thread, 

 as a root or base, there had shot perpendicularly 

 upward into the free water, the zigzag stalks which 

 bore the cells with their indwelling polypes, arranged 

 very evenly at intervals of about one-sixth of an inch, 

 and standing about half-an-inch high. There were about 

 forty stalks in all, each carrying from fourteen to 

 twenty polype-cells, so that this colony may have 

 included 7 or 800 individuals. The appearance of 

 the regular stalks, growing along the line, as the 

 frond gently waved beneath the transparent water, 

 was very pretty and attractive. 



THE ROSY ANEMONE. 



The very beautiful species of Actinia, which 

 believing it new, I describe below,* — has the habit 

 of A. bellis, protruding its beautiful rosy disk from 

 holes in the sides of shallow pools. I find it rather 

 numerous in the hollows of the worm-eaten limestone 

 rock, that bounds Babbicombe to the north, the south 

 face of the promontory known as Petit Tor, where also 



* Actinia rosea. Miiir. Body elongate, cylindrical, tentacula about 

 120, arranged in four series, the innermost and next row containing ten 

 each, the third about 20, and the fourth about 80. Oral disk ribbed 

 divergently ; mouth 4-lobed, crenated. Tentacles rose-red ; disk olive. 

 Body rich umber-brown, marked with numerous white sucking glands, 

 not always visible. Inhabits holes in rocks. 



