162 THE AQUARIAN NATURALIST. 



twenty-four hours, when it was rejected, together with 

 a numerous brood of thirty-eight young Actiniae, some 

 of them very large. 



On a similar occurrence, rejecting the undigested 

 food, a different specimen disgorged fourteen animated 

 beings, after being ten months in confinement. Six 

 of the fourteen proved to be corpuscula, like those 

 above described ; and these were carefully separated, 

 committed to various vessels, and set apart for more 

 attentive investigation. 



They differed in nothing of importance from those 

 extracted artificially from the tentacular all were 

 very minute, and they continued so for some time. 

 Four were spherical; two consisted of two spheres 

 united, exhibiting motions according to their form. 

 Sometimes they reposed, sometimes they moved; 

 their excursions were longer or shorter, though always 

 laboured, as if the power of their natatory organs were 

 inadequate to overcome the resistance. 



The motion of these embryonic corpuscles con- 

 tinued eight days ; but the shape of some was chan- 

 ging, and elongating prominences were rising on 

 others. Their form improved, and it was evident 

 that they would certainly become Actiniae. 



In ten days more the rudiments of tentacula be- 

 came visible in the largest, and in other two days the 

 tentacles were six in number ; the movements of the 

 rest had now relaxed, and they also exhibited obscure 

 indications of tentacula; they resembled elongated 

 caps with a convex base. Some were still devoid of 

 any perceptible prominences ; an internal organization 

 could be discerned through the sides of others. 



