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ILTANTUID^. 
and more positive colour; frequently becoming a pale opaque yellow at 
foot, which hue runs up in a point on each aide. 
Mouth. Scarlet, leading to a stomach of the same rich hue. 
Size. 
Column, in extension, reaches to nearly an inch in length, with a general 
diameter of one-tenth ; capitulum one-sixth in length, one twenty-fourth in 
diameter ; expanse of flower one-fourth. 
Locality. 
The south-western coasts of England; eroded rocks. 
This beautiful and interesting little species was first 
made known by myself in the Annals of Nat. Hist, for 
September, 1856, from a specimen kindly forwarded to me 
by ^Miss Pinchard, who obtained it from the rocky islet 
called the Orestone, off Torquay. 
In May, 1858, three specimens were forwarded to me by 
my friend, Mr. F. H. Dyster, out of some hundred and fifty 
that were found by a collector on rocks, between tide- 
marks, near Tenby ; and a few weeks after this I was so 
fortunate as to discover a populous home of the species, in 
the neighbourhood of Torquay. 
On the south side of the promontory, called Petit Tor, 
on the coast of South Devon, there is a low-roofed cavern, 
whose orifice is left bare at the lowest water of spring-tides. 
The interior parts of the floor are covered with the common 
limestone shingle, and, being more elevated than the mouth, 
atford an opportunity of working within, whenever one 
can gain admittance. The roof and sides of this cave are 
Studded with the pretty little Crimson Pufflet, as well as 
with many other Anemones. The tide having receded, 
they arc very readily discovered by their crimson columns 
projecting an eighth of an inch from the dark floccose rock. 
The limestone is much eroded by Saxicavm ; and it is 
in the old burrows of these Mollusca that the Edicardsia 
