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here. We have plenty of the large TZealia crassicornis, ‘‘ The 
Dahlia Wartlett,”” which is so common everywhere. It is very 
handsome when fully expanded, and exhibits a variety of showy 
colours, but it is not a desirable tenant of the aquarium, and the 
temptation to appropriate it had better be resisted. It isa gross 
feeder, and will never live long in confinement, requiring, appa- 
rently, the perpetual wash of the waves to keep it in health, 
Sagartia viduata, S. bellis and S. Miniata have been found on the 
Coast of Kent, but they are rare with us. These are ail desirable 
additions to the collection, and being more or less abundant on 
those parts of the British shores that are prolific in zoophytes 
(notably Devon, Dorset, and South Wales), they may easily be 
procured through one of the aquarium naturalists who collect from 
those favoured localities. ‘‘The Daisy,” S. bellis, is a hardy 
species of similar habits to troglodytes, and, like that anemone 
exhibits great variety of colour and markings. S. widuata, ‘‘The 
snake-locked anemone,” is furnished with long, slender flexuous 
tentacles of translucent bluish white or grey. It loves a shady 
corner of the tank, in which its crown of delicate tentacles is 
displayed with beautiful effect. S. miniata; S. rosea; S. venusta ; 
S. nivea; and S. sphyrodeta are all beautiful forms, and of small 
size. The last named species is the smallest, and perhaps the most 
striking in its simple garb of white and gold. Bunodes gemmacea, 
“‘The Gem,” is an aristocratic relation of the somewhat vulgar 
crassicornis. It bears confinement well, but is chary of exhibiting 
its beautiful disk. B. Clavata, ‘‘ The clubbed (or Weymouth) sea- 
anemone,” and B. Thallia, ‘‘ The glaucous sea-anemone,”’ are less 
beautiful allies of gemmacea, and are fairly hardy. 
Anthea cerens, Sagartia parasitica, and Adamsia palliata are not 
to be trusted. The first is a beautiful but restless creature, who 
wanders ultimately into an obscure corner where she is difficult to 
get at, and there she dies. The two latter species are only ‘at 
home”’ ou a shell inhabited by one of the Hermit crabs. These 
crustacea will not live long in an aquarium, and the anemones are 
not happy without their companionship. Palliata is especially 
difficult to keep, and I do not recommend beginners to introduce 
either species into their aquarium. The rare and lovely Corynactis 
viridis, found only in deep water on our south-western coasts, is a 
treasure to be prized in any well-established aquarium. Minute in 
size, and of exquisite colour,—either emerald-green, scarlet, or 
pure white, with tiny tentacles furnished with a globular head of 
rich rose-pink,—the varieties of this species appear like precious 
gems on the rock on which they are clustered. The British Corals 
are also interesting, but, like Corynactis, they are difficult to 
procure. 
There are a few other British Sea-Anemones which I have not 
