228 HISTORY OF BRITISH ZOOPHYTES. 



Hab. Near Cork, Prof. Allman; coast of Cornwall, C. 

 W. Peach. 



A full description of it, by Professor Allman, may be 

 found in Dr. Johnston's ' History of British Zoophytes/ 



" It is a charming little animal, and by no means rare in 

 the locality where I discovered it (at Crook Haven, in little 

 pools on the shore) ; the brilliancy of its colours, and the 

 great elegance of its tentacular crown, when fully expanded, 

 render it eminently attractive. Hundreds may often be seen 

 in a single pool, and few sights will be retained with greater 

 pleasure by the naturalist than that presented by these little 

 zoophytes, as they spread abroad their green and rosy 

 crowns amid the algse and nullipores and plumy corals, 

 co-tenants of their rocky vases/' 



Mr. Peach's specimens were yellowish, and their favourite 

 position was to hang from the rock when in the form of the 

 daisy. 



Genus XXX. ADAMSIA, R Forbes. 



Gen. Char. Body expanded, bi-lobed, adheiing by a broad 

 base ; tentacula subretractile, simple, surrounding the mouth. 

 Forbes. 



