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Column. Pale yellow : each wart crowned with a well-defined crimson 
speck, the interspaces irregularly freckled with crimson. In some instances, 
the pale yellow predominates on the upper half of the column, the crimson 
on the lower. 
I>isk. Pellucid-grey, covered or dusted with opaque white specks, 
varying in size and shape, as if sprinkled with flour. 
Tentacles. Yeiy pellucid, pale yellow, but 
some or all frequently tinged with a lovely 
rose-colour: always sprinkled, on all sides, with 
minute irregularly shaped specks of opaque 
white. 
Mouth. Lip and gonidial tubercles some- 
times erimson or rose-pink ; but sometimes 
whitish or pale yellow. 
TENTACLE 
{lateral rieic). 
Size. 
Ordinary specimens are an inch in diameter and half an inch in 
height, with an expanse of two inches. Mr. Tugwell figures one two 
inches in diameter, and three in expanse ; and Mr. Brodrick writes me 
that one, which has been in his possession nearly three years, measures, 
after feeding, /oar inches in expanse. 
Locality. 
The southern and south-western shores of England ; on the under sur- 
faces of stones, and in crevices between tide-marks, and in deep water. 
Varieties. 
a. liosea. The most lovely condition above described. 
fi. Dealbata. The roseate hue wanting; the tentacles cream white; in 
other respects as a. 
y. Funesta. Tentacles dark umber or wood-bro^vn, with little trans- 
lucency. Disk smoke-black. Both dusted with yellowish-white specks as 
usual. Column as o; but tinged with brown. Usually of large size. 
S. Livida. Tentacles and disk tinged in various degrees with bluish-grey 
or livid green, often in a sort of changeable lustre, like that of putrescent 
flesh ; with the chai-acteristic specks. Chiefly from deep water. 
Mr. William Thompson, of Weymouth, described this 
species by the name of Actinia clavata, in the Appendix to 
the Zoologist for 1851. But Mr. W. P. Cocks had akeady 
described and figured, under the title of A. the same 
