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gular, clear granules, with some Alga-spores, Diatoms, and 

 here and there a cnida. 



I removed, with a fine needle's point and pliers, the 

 epidermis piecemeal. It was tongh, allowing the Anemone 

 and its bit of rock (as large as a filbert) to be lifted ont of 

 the water by it, without giving way. Its adhesion to the 

 lower part of the column was very firm. As I removed the 

 loose free tubular portion, (the animal having retreated fa- 

 in at the earliest assaults,) I discovered free within its 

 cavity about half-a-dozen egg-like germs, of a rich deep 

 orange colour; these, under the microscope, proved to be 

 covered with vibratile cilia, by means of which the germ 

 slowly swam. They were soft, ovate, "04 inch long, by 

 025 wide. One, on being crushed, was resolved into a 

 mass of minute round clear granules, — fat-corpuscles ? 



When the whole epiderm was removed, I detached the 

 animal from its adhesion in a small hollow of the lime- 

 stone ; not without the discharge of a thick mucus from the 

 base, and the emission of a single acontium from the lower 

 part of the column. The animal was now reduced to an 

 abject flatness, and looked like a miniature S. viduata in 

 its greatest contraction. 



In a day or two it attached itself to the rock again, and 

 even crawled a little way. It now expanded freely, and 

 looked just like an ordinary Sagartia : but did not renew 

 the epidermis. 



The only locality as yet known for the species has been 

 already indicated : — Torquay, P.H. G. 



A. palliata. mubocincta. E. camea. 



gausapata. 

 picta. 



