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the risk of apoplexy. There was another form obtained which 

 appears to be a var. of rosea, with colourless disc and tentacles. 

 . From the same group of rocks I obtained Sagartia miiiiata, Gosse, 

 the Scarlet-fringed Anemone, with an orange column spotted with 

 white suckers, an outer row of small orange tentacles, the longer 

 inner rows being pellucid, though dusky in hue. 



But the find that pleased me most that day was a species for which 

 I had searched all the rocks of Pencabe without result.^ Yet here 

 it was in abundance on the vertical face of the rough rock, its bril- 

 liant yellow and emerald columns rising from amid SerpiilcE, tube- 

 worms, acorn shells, and varicoloured Botrylli. Being out of water 

 their tentacles were withdrawn, but I knew them for Corynactis 

 viridts, the Globehorn, at once. They stand before me as I write, 

 their cup-like green columns fully erect, and their slightly conical 

 tentacles each ending in a globose crimson head. Other specimens 

 have the column crimson or brown, with pearl-like knobs to the 

 tentacles. I'hey are very small— about half an inch across the top 

 and of equal height — but exceedingly beautiful. On a flake of rock 

 about li inches square there are thirteen specimens of Corynactis, 

 besides the other creatures I have mentioned, all in full working 

 order ; to say nothing of various low crustaceans, CaprellcB and the 

 like, that range around in an inquisitive manner, and will probably 

 meet their fate in a voyage of discovery to the Globehorn's interior 

 before long. 



Such is a brief list of the littoral Actiniee of Portscatho on the 

 south coast of Cornwall, so far as I have yet been able to work them 

 out. 



1 Since writing these notes I have found Corynactis on the " barrier reef " that 

 bounds the Long Drang. — E. S. 



