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is of a flesh-colour, terminating in a dark gray 

 upon the u^^per margin, and is spotted with gray 

 warts of the kind above described. Disc gray, 

 streaked and spotted with white. Tentacles (about 

 700 in number) the same, resembling, when under a 

 lens, the spotted skin of a snake. 



This, then, is Actinia hellis, " the daisy." 



One variety seems to have a yellow horn pro- 

 jecting from the interior of the disc — in reality, 

 one of the tentacles in the inner row is enlarged 

 and coloured. 



Another variety is of a rich chocolate tint, streaked 

 with dark crimson. 



Another has a disc of alabaster underlined with 

 pure vermilion. 



Next we come to Actinia troglodytes^ "the cave- 

 dweller." His body is usually of a pale flesh- 

 colour, and sometimes of an olive-green, and to- 

 wards the base is streaked with vertical lines of 

 white, one broad band alternating with two or three 

 narrower lines. His disc is of a grayish pink. The 

 tentacles are about fifty in number, generally more 

 or less erect, transparent, white, ringed with opaque 

 white, and the base of each surrounded with a very 

 dark brown ring, containing a heart-shaped spot of 

 white. 



We have thus named the majority of the speci- 

 mens which we should probably find in the locality 

 of which we have been speaking. We have also 



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