100 A MANUAL 



EEMARKS ON A FEW OF THE RARER SPECIES AND 

 VARIETIES DESCRIBED IN THE FOREGOING 

 TABLE. 



A. clavata, "The Weymouth Anemone " (Thomp- 

 son). — This anemone was discovered in 1851 by 

 W. Thompson, Esq., the eminent naturalist and 

 photographist, of Weymouth, to whose weU-known 

 courtesy I owe the following interesting observations 

 on its form, habits and habitats : — 



" Body cylindrical, J inch in diameter ; tentacula 

 placed in two series, one being much longer than the 

 other, club-shaped, larger at the top than the bottom, 

 and ending abruptly. Twenty-five longitudinal raised 

 lines are placed at regular intervals round the body, 

 the top of each produced into a wart at the edge of 

 the disc. When expanded, measures 2j inches from 

 tip to tip of the tentacles. Skin warty, ground-colour 

 straw or yellowish or rosy pink, profusely covered 

 with innumerable small puce-coloured specks, which 

 become scarcer towards the apex, where they form 

 five or six circles ; the raised longitudinal lines have 

 fewer spots on them than the rest of the body. The 



