THE CAVE-DWELLING ANEMONE. 
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inch. No result, however, followed the discharge, and 
they soon decomposed. 
Dr. Byerly, however, has succeeded in rearing the young 
of this species ; hut from ciliated germs, not from ova. 
Some specimens which he found numerous on the Leasowe 
shore of the Mersey, threw off many germs, which could he 
plainly seen through the skin at the hase. These made 
their exit through “ breaches of continuity in the outer 
envelope near its junction with the hasal disk, and some- 
times through ragged apertures in the hase itself.” Tlie 
germs were about as large as a pin’s head, perfectly 
globular, and had a very sluggish motion. Three or four 
were put into a wide-mouthed bottle and stopped : after 
two months, one had developed a perfeet Actinia, the ten- 
tacles being fully expanded. At the time of the record it 
had lived six months ; but having never been fed, it had 
not visibly grown.* 
Since the former observations were made,- I have proved 
this species (contrary to what has been asserted of the 
Actinoids) to be hermaphrodite. The variety in this case 
was the exquisite one I have named melanoleuca (see PI. 
V. fig. 5), a large specimen received about a week before 
from Morecambe. 
On the 26th of May, this individual, on being put into 
fresh sea- water, instantly made it turbid. I took it out in 
the com-se of the day, and isolated it in a small glass tank 
of clear water. Presently this also became quite turbid, as 
if milk had been mixed with it, while clouds of the white 
fluid were seen floating about the animal. On the vessel 
being shaken, and again on my touching the Anemone, it 
contracted ; and, on each occasion, a stream of white fluid, 
almost as opaque as milk, shot up from the mouth, and 
slowly diffused itself in the surrounding water. 
* Edin. New Phil. Journ.; Jan. 185.5. 
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