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case it will expand in captivity, and look healthy to the 

 eye of the tyro ; but, when examined, it will be seen to be 

 perforate, a stick thrust in at the mouth coming out at the 

 base. Specimens so mutilated never recover. 



Little more than ordinary treatment is required for 

 S. bellis. It is desirable that it should be gently pushed, 

 base downward, into a hole of a piece of rock ; — flints are 

 often found suitable for it ; — or, if such cannot be readily 

 obtained, two pieces of stone may be set side by side, and 

 the Daisy dropped between them. Then it will soon attach 

 itself to the bottom or sides of the crevice, and expand 

 its beautiful disk, like a broad coin, at the top. 



S. bellis appears to be essentially a southern form. Sir 

 John Dalyell, in his twenty years' experience, seems never 

 to have met with it on the Scottish Coast ; nor has it, so far 

 as I know, occurred on the Scandinavian or Danish Coasts, 

 nor on either shore of the German Ocean. On the south- 

 western shores of Scotland, however, it has recently been 

 found in some numbers. 



On the other hand, it has recently been obtained near 

 Boulogne; Mr. Holdsworth finds it "by myriads" near 

 Oporto ; Eapp and Lamarck give the Mediterranean gene- 

 rally as its habitat ; and De Blainville, more specially, la 

 Mer de Naples. 



The following list of British localities is as complete as 

 I have been able to make it. 



Guernsey (abundant), E. W. H. H. : Selsey, G. G.: 

 Weymouth, P. H. G. : Torquay, P. H. G. : Dartmouth, 

 E. W. H. H.: Falmouth, W. P. C: Mount's Bay, 

 Gaertner: Lundy, G. T. : Ilfracombe, P. H. G.: Tenby 

 (rare), P. H. G. : Holyhead, E. L. W. : Man, F. H. W.: 

 Puffin Island, E. L. W. : South Corrigills, Arran, T. S. 

 Wright: Cumbrae, D. Robertson: Kathlin, J. Templeton: 

 Balyholme Bay, W. Thompson : Dublin Bay, E. P. W. 



