106 POPULAR HISTOEY OF THE AQUARIUM. 



face of many, however, is variegated, red and white, like a 

 rose, or with orange and yellow intermixed. One occurred 

 almost totally white, another wholly primrose-yellow. It 

 may be truly affirmed that the diversities baffl.e enumera- 

 tion and description.''^ The variety which has the thick 

 tentacles white, with bands of pink, is a very splendid sea- 

 flower. Bunodes crassicornis sometimes agglutinates to its 

 outer coat an extra coating of sand and gravel as an addi- 

 tional protection. 



Bunodes gemmacea. — (Plate YIII.) 



The Gemmaceous Anemone is remarkable for the rows of 

 gem-like and pearly warts, wdiich are arranged down the 

 body, and the strongly marked wdiite bands which cross 

 the tentacles. The warts are round, well-defined, larger on 

 the upper part, diminishing downwards towards the base. 

 There are some rows of principal ones, and between them 

 are rows of smaller ones. Generally about half-a-dozen 

 rows at equal distances are white, so as to produce a con- 

 spicuous radiation when the animal is closed : it is then 

 globular. The ground-colour is sometimes delicately rosy 

 pink, sometimes of an ashy grey ; altogether, unlike the 

 generality of Actinia, it shows almost as much beauty 



