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marked, and at the same time constant, specific character, 
there is scarcely any of oiu: species more readily or more 
certainly recognisable. Its variations are circumscribed 
•within appreciable limits, both of coloiu* and form, and it 
has little tendency to merge into the characteristic con- 
dition of any other (British) species. Indeed, but for the 
needless multiplication of genera, I should be tempted to 
separate it from the other Sagartice, constituting for it, in 
association with two or three closely allied forms from the 
southern hemisphere, a distinct genus. 
From the elegance of its form, and its ready power of 
accommodating itself to captivity, few of our native species 
are more favourite tenants of an aquarium than this. Its 
habits, too, render it easily accessible. Within the limited 
range of its habitat it is for the most part abundant. The 
rugged, indented, rocky shores of Devon and CornAvall 
seem to be the metropolis of the species : and here the 
tide-pools, fissures, and honeycomb-like burrows of the 
Saxicavce, are densely crowded with the pretty Daisy. 
The broad front of Capstone Hill, at Ilfracombe, is 
broken, Avithin the range of the tides, into a succession of 
narrow horizontal shelves, the angles of which run down 
into long fissures. The limestone promontory, known as 
Petit Tor, on the south-east coast of Devon, presents many 
ledges very similar in character, but more eroded into irre- 
gular holes and cavities. In both of these localities, hellis 
abounds, generally of the beautiful scarlet-lined variety, 
Tyriensis. Each usually occupies a little hollow, being 
attached by its base to the bottom, and expanding its 
beautiful disk over the edge. In the broader basins, 
moreover, which the waves have worn, 
“ hollows of the tide-wora reef,” 
overshadowed by ribbon-shaped sea-weeds, — which are the 
very counterparts, in the sea, of the hart.’s-tongue _fern 
