240 CHAS. L. WALTON. 



usually solitary and extends downward into the Laminarian zone) — 

 renders it most conspicuous. 



Anemonia sulcata is the only really abundant species on many reefs ; 

 colouration and size normal. 



Sagartia miniata. One normally coloured, and one specimen of the 

 variety hrunnea (Gosse, p. 43) — both from beneath stones. Hope 

 Cove. 



Sagartia rosea. Ten specimens were obtained from a reef-pool 

 between Thurlestone Sand and Hope Cove. In the pool, which was 

 sheltered by a large rock, stood many slabs of slaty rock, on edge, and 

 wedged together. By loosening one, all were in time examined, and 

 the anemones discovered attached to the lower sides and edges of the 

 stones. They were small and easily detached. The column elongate, 

 when expanded almost pellucid white, in some slightly tinged with 

 pink, the mesenteries showing very plainly ; grooved, studded with 

 numerous minute scattered whitish suckers to which adhered frag- 

 ments of sand, etc., and in a few a brown nuicous coat was present 

 when first obtained. 



Disk, semi-transparent white ; mouth, rose-red ; throat and stomo- 

 daeum, orange-red, showing through the integuments during expansion. 

 Tentacles, rose, with a darker core when contracted, forty-eight to 

 seventy in number. 



These specimens manifested an intense dislike for light, and always 

 crept under stones ; at night the column was greatly lengthened, and 

 then presented a most graceful pillar-like appearance, the rose-red 

 throat and stomodaeum being very striking. They were all singularly 

 insensitive, and it was a long time before I could procure the expulsion 

 of acontia ; finally one was extruded from the mouth. 



Sagartia nivea. A few specimens from under stones, mostly of the 

 variety ohscurata of Gosse. I'rom Hope Cove I obtained an abnormally 

 developed example. Diameter 10 mm. expanded. The abnormality 

 consisted of some sixty of the tentacles, comprising three-quarters of 

 the circumference, remaining short and obtuse, and of the olivaceous 

 hue of the summit of the column. The inner cycle about 2 mm. in 

 length, the outer more like papillae than tentacles. The remaining 

 thirty were normal in size and colouration, white, slender, and about 

 5 mm. long. The anemone had the appearance of never being properly 

 expanded. 



8. vcnusta. Normal in colour, but small. 



S. sphyrodda. Both varieties are present in the district, Candida 

 fairly abundant; oxinthopis at Hope Cove under stones, among Lami- 

 naria. 



