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or shell fulcrum to which it is affixed, while the tentacular disc is expanded on the 
sand surface. The colour of the normally concealed column is usually a bright scarlet, 
while the tentacles are mottled with short alternating bars of greys, browns, or olive 
green. A noteworthy peculiarity in this species is the circumstance that the individual 
tentacles often present a distinctly nodular or moniliform contour, each node coinciding 
with the alternating colour bands. The anemone, moreover, in its ordinary condition 
of expansion shows a marked tendency to pucker its oral disc and radiating tentacles 
into six symmetrically even folds. Both of these conspicuous characteristics are dis- 
tinctly shown in the ‘photographs from life of this species previously cited, as also in 
the smaller illustration representing two closely approximated individuals reproduced 
on the preceding page. This fine anemone, which is apparently referable to the genus 
Condylactis, has been met with by the writer at Port Darwin and also on the 
Queensland coast. The expanded disc of the largest individual observed measured 
seven inches in diameter, and the height of the elevated column but little short 
of the same measurement. 
Another sand-frequenting Anemone that occurs under conditions substantially 
identical with those recorded of the foregoing type is photographically depicted in 
the figures on the next page by two examples in varying conditions of extension. This 
Anemone is remarkable for its stinging properties, which equal those of a nettle, and 
is apparently identical with the type originally described by Quoy and Gaimard, 
under the title of <Actinodendron alcyonidium. The individuals here figured were 
obtained at the Lacepede Islands. They were of a much more brilliant tint than 
those met with by the writer on the Queensland coast, of which an illustration and 
description are given in his volume on the “Great Barrier Reef.” The previously 
observed Queensland specimens were in all instances of mixed light brown and whitish 
tints, and in such respect closely coincided with the hue of their sandy surroundings. 
The Western Australian examples bore in their native element a much nearer resem- 
blance to growing tufts of seaweeds, in which tints of green, yellow, and light orange 
red were variously interblended. These colours, in fact, as exhibited by the animal in 
a condition of semi-extension as depicted in figure A. of the two photographic 
reproductions on page 224, were wonderfully suggestive of a bunch of mignonette. 
The shafts of the tentacles, in pursuance of this simile, were bright green, the 
secondary subdivisions a pale yellowish-green, and the terminal, finely separated 
tentacular filaments, of that peculiar orange-red hue characteristic of the ordinary 
growth of the flower with which comparisons have been instituted. The smooth 
