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Acontia. Abundant; copiously protruded from the mouth or from 

 wounds ; occasionally also, but sparingly and reluctantly, from loop-holes. 



Colour. 



Column. Warm orange-buff, richer at base, blending into a bluish-black 

 hue where it expands into the cup-like disk : the entire length marked 

 with longitudinal faint lines, indicating the insertions of the septa. 



Disk. Dark iron-grey, becoming ashy towards the centre : each radius 

 bounded by lines of pale greyish blue. 



Tentacles. Sepia brown ; but seen under a low magnifying power to be 

 of a warm umber, more or less decided, minutely mottled with darker : 

 the colour usually softens into white at the extreme tip of the tentacle. 



Mouth. Lip and throat ash-grey. 



Size. 



When fully extended the column is sometimes four inches in height, and 

 from an eighth to three-fourths of an inch in diameter. Expanse of flower 

 about three inches. 



Locality. 



The Channel Islands and Cornwall. Under surface of stones at low- 

 water mark ; deep water. 



In the latter part of March of the present year (1858), 

 Dr. Hilton of Guernsey found on the shores of that island, 

 and kindly sent to me, several specimens of an Anemone 

 new to him, and equally so to me. The locality, the colour 

 of the disk, and much in the form and contour of the animal, 

 at once suggested the Actinia biserialis of Edward Forbes, 

 for which species I was on the look-out. 



Not long after this, I was indebted to the courtesy of 

 Mr. Sydney Hodges, the Secretary of the Koyal Cornwall 

 Polytechnic Society, for other specimens of the same species 

 from Falmouth, which were sent under the persuasion that 

 they were A. biserialis. Still so much diversity existed 

 between the specimens (those from Guernsey and Falmouth 

 perfectly agreeing inter se) and Forbes's description, that I 

 could not but consider the point very doubtful. At the 



