THE ORANGE-DISKED ANEMONE. 
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little broken debris of shells, and to stick them over their 
bodies, in the "vray children stick broken china on heaps of 
mud, in our Irish villages. 
“ But new to me as was E. lividus, and splendid as the 
really tine crassicornes were — they were of that pretty 
healthy white and pink variety — yet they were surpassed 
by your Sag. venusta, which with S. rosea sprouted out of 
every fissure. The former is, I think, the most exquisite 
of our Irish Anemones. In your figure in ‘ Tenby,’ the 
tentacles are hardly white enough, and no painting can do 
justice to the clear orange. Book it and S. rosea, both 
very distinct from any other of our species. I saw other 
Anemones that I suspect will turn out new species ; but 
what could twenty minutes and an insect-net effect in 
‘catching’ such things as Sagarts? Why, touch them 
roughly and — they’re gone ! If spared, I will visit them 
again ; and you shall see them, I hope, too : for if I spend 
a month in Bantry Bay, say next June or July, I can 
easily send you my Actinia captures ; — that is, if you 
won’t visit Ireland. It is as pleasant as Jamaica.” 
To turn from these tempting scenes of wild nature ; — our 
beautiful Orange-disk is easily made happy in captivity : 
where, indeed, fed daily by fair fingers, and admired by 
bright eyes, it would argue badly for its temper if it were 
not. It is soon at home, and becomes one of the most 
brilliant ornaments of the Aquarium, expanding its lovely 
disk freely, fringed with its elegant border of snow-white 
tentacles, and thus making up in beauty what it lacks in size. 
It will survive an indefinite period, if it receive a moderate 
degree of attention. The observations which I have made 
on the treatment of S. rosea will apply with equal force to 
this species and to the following. 
]SIr. Holdsworth informs me that he has witnessed the 
production of new individuals from fragments spontaneously 
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