THE TllUMPLET. 
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AcorUia. Abundant; copiously protruded from the mouth or from 
wounds ; occasionally also, but sparingly and reluctantly, from loop-holes. 
Colour. 
Column. Warm orange-buff, richer at base, blending into a bluish-black 
hue where it expands into the cup-like disk : the entire length marked 
with longitudinal faint lines, indicating the insertions of the septa. 
Disk. Dark iron-grey, becoming ashy towards the centre : each radius 
bounded by lines of pale greyish blue. 
Tentacles. Sepia brown ; but seen under a low magnifying power to be 
of a warm umber, more or leas decided, minutely mottled with darker : 
the colour usually softens into white at the extreme tip of the tentacle. 
Mouth. Lip and throat ash-grey. 
Size. 
When fully extended the column is sometimes four inches in height, and 
from an eighth to three-fourths of an inch in diameter. Expanse of flower 
about three inches. 
Locality. 
The Channel Islands and Cornwall. Under surface of stones at low- 
water mark ; deep water. 
In tlie latter part of March of the present year (1858), 
Dr. Hilton of Guernsey found on the shores of that island, 
and kindly sent to me, several specimens of an Anemone 
new to him, and equally so to me. The locality, the colour 
of the disk, and much in the form and contour of the animal, 
at once suggested the Actinia hiserialis of Edward Forbes, 
for which species I was on the look-out. 
Not long after this, I was indebted to the courtesy of 
Mr. Sydney Hodges, the Secretary of the Koyal Cornwall 
Polytechnic Society, for other specimens of the same species 
from Falmouth, which were sent under the persuasion that 
they were A. hiserialis. Still so much diversity existed 
between the specimens (those from Guernsey and Falmouth 
perfectly agreeing inter se) and Forbes’s description, that I 
could not but consider the point very doubtful. At tlie 
