OF SEA-ANEMONES. 65 



a. Common variety. 



h. Yellow-horned variety. 



c. Disc ivorj^-wliite. 



d. Disc chocolate and crimson. 



e. Disc alaabster and vermilion. 

 /. Disc rose-colour. 



g. Disc and tentacles amber-colour. 



2. Actinia troglodytes^ 

 " The Cave-dweller." 



Tentacles erect, few, taper, barred at their base 

 ■with a dark ring, containing a white heart-shaped 

 mark. Habit, hides under stones ; body irregularly 

 flattened when in a state of contraction. 



3. Actinia anguicoma, or viduata, 

 *' The Snake -locked Anemone." 



Tentacles few, very long, taper and flexible. 

 Two vertical streaks * down each tentacle. Habit, 

 alternately very flat and columnar. 



4. Actinia rosea, 

 ^' The Rosy Anemone." 



Tentacles few, rosy red ; mouth a cross of foui' 

 rounded lobes. 



* These vertical streaks are found in A. troglodytes. I ain 

 incKned to believe that the two species are identical. See 

 Chapter VI. 



