SEA-ANEMONES. 105 



Sagartia dianthus. — (Plate YII.) 

 The arrival of a large number of magnificent specimens 

 of this Plumose Anemone at Lloyd's establishment while I 

 was there, tempted me to figure them as well as I could 

 in one of our Plates. There were two varieties ; one all 

 orange ; the other pinky-white with pale orange tentacula. 

 It is a very large species, of a smooth, transparent, jelly- 

 like texture, and remarkable for the beautiful manner in 

 which its disc coils and puckers up into lobes, fringed with 

 overhanging feelers. At a distance, it looks not unlike 

 a cauliflower-head, and presents an object that may be ad- 

 mired, but scarcely portrayed. The young are very pretty, 

 and show all the characteristics of their progenitors. 



BUNODES CRASSICORNIS. 



We now come to those Actinice which do not jerk forth 

 filiferous tlireads, but which differ from the true ActinicB 

 in being rough and warty. The ThicJc-hornecl Anemone 

 is remarkably so. It is a remarkably fine species, and one 

 of the largest, if not the largest, of the British species. Sir 

 J. G. Dalyell says : — " No species is equally diversified in 

 colour and aspect. Eed is usually predominant. The sur- 



