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ANTHOZOA HELIAXTIIOIDA. 



tubercles between the bunches of tentacula : they are for the pur- 

 pose of holding by, either for suspension or when removing from 

 place to place. I repeatedly tried them. After first noticing it, 

 I found that they could adhere firmly to a piece of sea-weed or a 

 bent of hay ; and it was curious to see how quickly and firmly they 

 held. I have not seen this fact noticed before." C. W. Peach. 



3. L. CAMPANULATA, lody subsessile, campanulate ; tufts 

 of tentacula eight, equidistant, without 

 tubercles. Dr. John Coldstream.* 



Fig. 56. 



Lucernaria campanulata, Lamouroux in Mem. du Mus. ii. 472, pi. 16, fig. 1-7. 

 L. Convolvulus, Johnston in Mag. Nat. Hist. viii. 59, fig. 3. Lucernaire auriciile 

 Blainv. Actinolog. pi. 50, fig. 4. 



Hob. On sea-weed near low-water mark. Torbay, Dr Coldstream. 

 Berwick Bay, G. J. 



About an inch in height ; of a uniform liver-brown colour, 

 smooth, adhering by a circular disk, above which there is a deep 



* A native of Leith, where he is now settled as a physician. Dr. C. is an alumnus 

 of the University of Edinburgh, and graduated M.D. in 1827 ; his Thesis being " de 

 Indole Morborum perioclica." He early distinguished himself by researches in Me- 

 teorology and Zoology, more particularly by his essays on the chromophorous globules 

 of the Cephalopoda, and on Limnoria terebrans. 



