THE WALLED CORKLET. 
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gular, clear granules, with some Alga-spores, Diatoms, and 
here and there a cnida. 
I removed, with a fine needle’s point and pliers, the 
epidermis piecemeal. It was tough, allowing the xVnemone 
and its hit of rock (as large as a filbert) to be lifted out of 
the water by it, without giving way. Its adhesion to the 
lower part of the column was very firm. As I removed the 
loose free tubular portion, (the animal having retreated far 
in at the earliest assaults,) I discovered free within its 
cavity about half-a-dozen cgg-like germs, of a rich deep 
orange colour; these, under the microscope, proved to be 
covered with vibratile cilia, by means of which the germ 
slowly swam. They were soft, ovate, '(Id inch long, by 
•025 wide. One, on being crushed, was resolved into a 
mass of minute round clear granules, — fat-corpuscles ? 
When the whole epiderm was removed, I detached the 
animal from its adhesion in a small hollow of the lime- 
stone ; not without the discharge of a thick mucus from the 
base, and the emission of a single acontium from the lower 
part of the column. The animal was now reduced to an 
abject flatness, and looked like a miniature S. viduata in 
its greatest contraction. 
In a day or two it attached itself to the rock again, and 
even crawled a little way. It now expanded freely, and 
looked just like an ordinary Sagartia ; but did not renew 
the epidermis. 
The only locality as yet known for the species has been 
already indicated: — Torquay, r.H. G. 
? 
A. palliata. :\iueocincta. E. carnea. 
gausapata. 
picta. 
