THE SCAELET-FRINGED ANEMONE. 
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•y. JRoseoules. Column orange-brown ; disk palo yellowish-grey ; ten- 
tacles rose-coloured, with the proper markings ; and the outer row either 
wholly or partially scarlet-cored. Dartmouth, Plymouth. This is esceed- 
ingly like S. rosea. (See the article on that species.) 
5. Niveoides.* Column drab-olive. All the tentacles opaque white, except 
five groups sub-symmetrically arranged, each group comprising a few 
tentacles of a pale orange-buff hue. A single specimen in the possession 
of Mr. G. H. King, of Torquaj", obtained by him in the vicinity. 
€. Coccinea. Column deep pellucid crimson : tentacles crimson. This 
approaches a common state of A. mescmbryanthemum in its api^earance and 
colouring ; its suckers, however, will in a moment distinguish it on exa- 
mination, and the usual row of orange-cored tentacles determines its true 
character. (Plate ii. fig. 2.) 
f. Brunnea. Column umber- or even bistre-brown, with pale suckers : 
tentacles with the characteristic bars much disguised, and almost lost in a 
general cloud of dusky black occupying the lower half of the tentacle : 
this is divided by a naiTOW whitish band from the terminal half, which 
is pellucid umber. The tentacles ai-e unusually long. Those of the outer 
row are not all scarlet, some being white; all, however’, have the cored 
appearance. Torquay. 
It may suffice to particularise these varieties, hut spe- 
cimens are frequently found combining the characters of 
several, and running into one another by imperceptible 
gradations. I obtained a very young individual at Wey- 
mouth, which I assign to this species, in whieh the ten- 
tacles of all the four rows were cored with the richest 
orange. 
I first became acquainted with this very fine species 
in the summer of 1853, at Weymouth, wdiere I found 
several specimens adhering to the shells of oysters and 
pectens, brought to market by the trawlers. Since that 
time I have met with it in some abundance in the neigh- 
bourhood of Tenby, especially on the eroded surface of 
some dangerous rocks, known as the Woolhousc Eocks, 
lying about a mile off shore, and exposed only at low’ 
Avater. In the pools and hollow’s of this reef, open to 
* In these compounds I take the liberty of using the elements “ venusta,” 
“ rosea,” and “ nivea” not as Latin adjectives, but as words now having the 
force of proper names. 
