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BUNODID^. 
My esteemed friend, Professor E. P. ^^'^right, of Dublin, 
has favoured me with one of his vivid pictures, in which 
this species forms a prominent feature. It will be read 
with interest : — 
“ There is a very fine cave here, [Crookhaven, county 
Cork,] entered at either high or low water by a boat, whose 
entrance is guarded on both sides by a long low reef of 
rocks, and of a depth at low water of about ten or twelve 
feet. The sea-floor is shaped somewhat like a Spanish hulk, 
i.e. rather flat at the bottom, and then rising up gradually 
and ‘ wideningly ’ to a distance far above our heads, and 
then ending in an arch formed of sharp-pointed icicles of 
the by-me-never-to-be-forgotten Devonian slates. To this 
cave all the fat and fair anemones of the county seem to be 
sent, when once they have reached a good bodily condition. 
The cavern is of ample dimensions, so they don’t crush 
each other for room ; and the regular manner in which they 
dispose of themselves is worthy of note. Actinia mesem- 
hryanthemum — the green, scarlet, and strawberry varieties 
— occupied the highest row, some of them partly out of the 
water; they had eyes, and kept a ‘look-out’ for the rest. 
Then came Sag. venusta and Sag. nivea, lovingly inter- 
mixed, and in a large broad band some four feet deep. 
Then there came an empty row of benches, necessary to 
keep the tenants of the galleries from the aldermen in the 
pit, for it was filled with T. crassicornis. 1 verily believe 
the biggest of the big were here ; and the commonest 
variety was the one with the white tentacles and red disk — 
a splendid show for size of specimens and magnificence of 
colour. This cave of Anemones never can be surpassed, 
and seldom will the wild grandeur of the cliffs, a hundred 
feet and more high, with the Atlantic waves rolling in to 
fill up the picture, — be equalled.” 
The voracity of this fine creature is remarkable. The 
