96 THE SNAKE-LOCKED ANEMONE. 



the pores on the outside of the body, as well as from 

 the mouth. These are slender, and of the purest white. 

 The animal sometimes show^s slight traces of longi- 

 tudinal bands of pellucid white, alternating with the 

 opaque. 



(P. S.) I have since taken it in May at extreme low 

 water, on the rocks at Wildersmouth, Ilfracombe ; 

 attached to a frond of Delesseria. 



THE SNAKE-LOCKED ANEMONE. 



In the coves around Marycliurch I have found 

 attached to stones, generally on the under side, near 

 very low w^ater mark, a smallish Actinia, which I take 

 to be the A. angaicoma of Mr. Price. It is by no 

 means common, however. The largest specimen I 

 have seen was obtained at Anstey's Cove in April, 

 beneath the shadow of the high rocks that form its 

 southern boundary, below the slab of slate that some 

 one has laid as a seat for those who will venture along 

 the narrow giddy ledge on the precipitous face of the 

 rock. This individual, in contraction (See Plate I, fig. 

 10), hasabase of about an inch in diameter, and forms a 

 hemispherical wart of \ inch in height, much narrower 

 than its base. When expanded its height and thick- 

 ness are subject to great variation. Mr. Price speaks 

 of its stretching itself to a length of b\ inches ; I 

 have never seen my specimens attain nearly that 

 height, but do not in the least doubt the fact, from 

 the tendency which I perceive the animal has to 

 elongate itself in the dark, at the expense of its thick- 

 ness, to become, as a gardener would say of a flower 



