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This specimen does not progress by the usual creeping method, but 

 by drawing in the fiat base, inflating one side of the column, and 

 falling over in that direction, thus turning upside down and resting 

 on the partly expanded oral disk and tentacles. One side of the 

 pedal disk is next inflated, and the anemone rights itself again, and 

 so on. The body wall was covered by a thin horn-coloured coating 

 of hardened mucous, in which a good many sand grains were embedded. 

 Eemains of an older and thicker coating could be made out. The 

 thin coat was easily removed, and the animal expanded more freely 

 in consequence. The whole base and column were then seen to 

 be " translucent buff," but with no sign of the " pinkish or flesh 

 colour " on the scapus, as in Haddon's Irish specimen. Tentacles 

 6 + 6 + 12 + 24 + 48 = 96, one cycle more than in Haddon's examples. 

 They were coloured as given in his plate and description, but varied 

 in intensity, some being largely white, others with a wash of pale 

 chrome, especially about the base. The brown terminal spot very 

 weak or absent. The lateral spots of brown, in two or three pairs, 

 well marked or almost absent. 



Disk pale brown, with 12 somewhat darker areas radiating from 

 the primary tentacles to the mouth, these areas bordered by double 

 yellowish lines (single in Haddon's specimens). 



From the bases of the secondary tentacles, and on a paler ground, 

 lines of white dots run towards the mouth. 



Mouth raised in a cone, lips pale, throat same, longitudinally ribbed, 

 and banded with dark brown. Acontia freely emitted from the mouth. 



I recently obtained seven specimens adhering to stones at extreme 

 low water at Zennor, near St. Ives, Cornwall, and as this is a new 

 habitat and locality for this species, a short description may be of 

 interest. An abundant growth of Laminaria and several layers of 

 stones having been removed, these anemones were found adhering 

 firmly to the sides and lower faces of the stones, together with 

 Corynactis viridis and Caryophyllia, etc. When contracted they re- 

 sembled Haddon's figure (Trans. B., Duhlin Soc, Vol. iv., PI. XXXII, 

 Fig. 2), and were invested in a thick brown, wrinkled, bark-like 

 coating, and the scapus proved to be pale flesh colour on its removal. 

 In no case, while in my possession, was a flat or crenulate base to be 

 seen. This is probably limited to specimens living on a sandy bottom. 

 Disk tawny brown. The arrangement of lines and dots was more 

 complicated than in either the Irish or Plymouth specimens, but on 

 the whole was very similar. The tentacles 96 in the larger specimens ; 

 in these also there were slight variations of arrangement of tint and 

 markings. 



