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primaries themselves, from which they diverge at such an angle that they 
mutually meet and coalesce at a point about midway between the origin 
of the secondary of that system and the axis 
of the calice, but at a level much lower than 
the margin ; the two united plates thence pro- 
ceed in the intermediate line to join the 
columella. In many examples, however, this 
continuation of the united quinaries is obsolete 
in each alternate system. The quinaries that 
are contiguous to the secondaries (the 7 th 
order) are also much developed, but not so 
as to equal the secondaries, with which they 
often cohere. 
ANIMAL. 
Form. 
Column. Cylindrical, extensile, smooth, or somewhat invected. 
Disl\ Protrusile, in the form of a high truncate cone, on the summit 
of which is the mouth, without any thickened or furrowed lip. No trace 
of gonidial radii, tubercles, or grooves. ’ 
Tentacles. About fifty in number, large, conical, obtusely-pointed, with- 
out terminal knobs : their walls are translucent, and studded with 02:)aque 
transversely-oblong wartf?, which become confluent towards the tip. 
Colour. 
Column and Dlsl'. Vivid scarlet in adults, orange in young individuals, 
opaque. 
Tentacles. Gamboge yellow : the hue residing only in the warts. 
Size. 
Diameter of corallum one-fourth of an inch at margin, and occasionally 
twice as much at ba.se ; height from one-sixth to one-fourth. The animal 
in full expansion maj* reach one-third of an inch in diameter, and ono-half 
in height. 
B. REGIA. 
Locality. 
The coast of North Devon : on rocks at extreme low water. 
This showy little Coral, interesting not merely for its 
beauty while alive, but for its peculiar structure when cleatl, 
was discovered by myself in 1852. I had been spending a 
