SCAKLET-FKINGED ANEMONE. 77 



clining to scarlet. Most lovely little creatures are 

 they all. 



Commingled with these charming Roses, there are 

 others which, attain a larger size, occurring in even 

 greater abundance. They are frequently an inch and 

 a half in diameter when expanded, and some are even 

 larger than this. You may know them at once by 

 observing that the outer row of tentacles, and occa- 

 sionally also some of the others, are of a scarlet hue, 

 which, when examined minutely, is seen to be produced 

 by a sort of core of that rich hue pervading the pel- 

 lucid tentacle. The species is commonly known as the 

 Scarlet-fringed Anemone l The inner rows of tentacles, 

 which individually are larger than those of the outer 

 rows, are pale, marked at the base with strong bars of 

 black. The disk is very variable in hue, but the column 

 is for the most part of the same rich brown as we saw 

 in the Eosy. Yet, though these are characteristic 

 colours, there are specimens which diverge exceedingly 

 from them, and some approach so near the Eoses, as to 

 be scarcely distinguishable from them. Generally, how- 

 ever, the scarlet-cored outer tentacles, and a peculiar 

 habit of throwing the tentacular margin of the disk into 

 crumpled folds, will be found sufficient to determine this 

 very handsome kind of Anemone from its nearest allies. 



1 Sagartia miniata. 



