1864.] REVIEW. 471 



some measure the deficiency in these respects, and to establish a basis 

 for future investigations, rather than to present anything new, that 

 the present work was undertaken ; but on account of the constant 

 accessions of new materials, it has now become necessary to present 

 quite a number of undescribed species, and it is very probable that 

 many more remain to be hereafter discovered." The fringed acti- 

 nia figured in this Journal, vol. iii, pages 401-2, as Actinia dian- 

 thus, is here named Metridium marginatum (of Milne-Edwards), 

 and, though closely allied to the M. dianthusof Europe, is said to be 

 a "perfectly distinct" species. Mr. Verrill says of it — "It is the 

 most abundant species along the whole coast of New England and 

 of the provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.* * * In the 

 Bay of Fundy it is particularly abundant, and grows to a very 

 large size. At Mount Desert, on the coast of Maine, I have seen, 

 during a very low tide, a rocky bottom completely covered for acres 

 with this species, from low-water mark to a depth of two fathoms or 

 more." We have found it equally abundant on the north shore of 

 the St. Lawrence a few miles below the Saguenay ; the specimens 

 in form and color agreeing exactly with Dr. Landsborough's figure 

 of A. dianthus^ save that the column was proportionally more 

 slender than shown by him. We may add that we have found the 

 Bell-anemone [Lucemaria auricula) plentiful at Metis on the 

 south shore, where it occurs in rocky pools, adhering to the fronds 

 of sea-weeds, and is easily found during low tide. 



These Memoirs are from the Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass. 

 and are in the usual excellent style of that establishment. 



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Published, Montreal, January 11, 1865. 



