THE PLUMOSE ANEMONE. 
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Colook. 
Column. Olive, olive brown, umber-brown, red-lead, pale-orange, salmon- 
red, flesh-colour, cream-white, pure white. [“ Lemon-yellow,” “ peach- 
blossom.” — Dalye ll. ] 
Disk. Agrees with the column. 
Tentacles. Generally agree with the column, but in the olive and brown 
varieties, they are sometimes almost wholly pellucid-white, and in all cases 
they are marked with a single transverse bar of white, near their middle ; 
most conspicuous in youth. 
lAp. Always rufous, or orange-red ; whatever the hue of the body. 
Size. 
Specimens occasionally attain six inches in height, and three in thickness. 
Locality. 
All round the coasts of Europe, in deep water, and on dark rocks 
between tide-marks. 
Varieties. 
These might be made as numerous as the various shades of colour above- 
mentioned ; but for practical purposes it may be sufficient to distinguish 
the following : — 
a. Brunnea. Including the shades of brown, from dingy blackish olive, 
to warm umber, or fawn-colour. Sometimes, as in examples that have 
fallen under my own observation, the tentacles, in these brown specimens, 
are almost white, marked with the more opaque white bar. There is not 
the slightest reason to assign these, as has been suggested, to another 
species. 
j 8 . Ruhida. The various tints of red, from the full minium-scarlet to the 
peach-blossom and flesh-colour, may be classed under this variety, w'hich 
is perhaps the most abundant of all. 
7 . Flava. Sir John Dulyell enumerates “ lemon-yellow ” among the hues 
of this species ; but it must be a very rare variety. I have never seen it. 
5. Sindonea. Perhaps this is the most elegant variety ; the animal being 
clad in translucent white — “ simplex munditiis," as if arrayed in the finest 
Goan vestments. It is not uncommon. 
This noblest of our native Sea-anemones seems to be 
entitled to generic separation from the Sagartice, with 
which I have hitherto associated it. Its form and habit, 
its puckered disk, its crowded and fringe-like tentacles, its 
thickened parapet and deep fosse, and the presence of only 
