THE DAISY ANEMONE. 6V 



in some measure the false impressions liable to be pro- 

 duced by this unavoidable order of linear succession, I 

 endeavour to represent some of the radiations of relation, in 

 the following manner, observing that more direct affinity is 

 expressed by the perpendicular order. 



dianthus 



[Achates] A. amacha 

 parasitica bellis B. elavata 



[Fuegensis] ? [impatiens] 



[Discosoma] miniata viduata. 



rosea 



The late Edward Forbes described* what he considered to 

 be " the Actinia bellis of British authors, not of Bapp," 

 but which certainly cannot be referred to the species as 

 now recognised. He obtained several specimens by dredg- 

 ing on the Manx coast in September ; and it would be worth 

 while to examine that prolific locality afresh for the animal, 

 which will probably prove an unnamed species. " The 

 body is cylindrical, of a reddish, or reddish white colour, 

 regularly and finely striated longitudinally and transversely , 

 and having glands of a bright yelloic colour, small and not 

 very numerous, scattered over the surface. At the oral 

 end the body bulges, forming a calyx [cup], on which the 

 furrows are fewer but more granulose. When the disk is 

 expanded, this calyx laps back, and is then almost even 

 with the expanded tentacula. Disk angular, in my speci- 

 mens square, surrounded by three or four rows of short 

 tentacula, thickly set, of a white or brownish colour, varie- 

 gated ; having generally a white line down the centre of 

 each. The disk is broad, brownish, or orange, with white 



* In the Annals N. H. for May, 1S40. 



