780 The American Naturalist. [September, 
“Small, clustering Actinea. Amongst the surrounding 
rocks of Booby Quay, Actinia minima viride racemosa, the clus- 
tering small green Actinea. These grew many together, they 
were about an inch long, of a round form like an earthworm. 
Their arms extended themselves to the diameter of one's 
thumb-nail, and nothing could be more pleasing than to lean 
down and observe some hundreds of these animals with their 
arms extended in the form of a stellate flower with its disc, 
which the mouth represents, and its rays the extended arms 
of a various green color as deeper and paler in circles, sup- 
ported by deep green pedicels smaller than the fore-quill of a 
goose, and waving to and fro by the undulating motion of the 
water. 
“From their bases are produc'd young ones, and from 
thence others which never fall from the mother or parent ani- 
mal, asin the polypus, by which means, they grow in vast 
numbers, together so thick as to hide the rocks they grow 
upon entirely, and may be rais'd up as one body, where their 
bodies are observ'd to unite to one another. "Their bodies are 
firmer and harder in handling than those of the common Ac- 
tinea, nor do they shrink so much but only close their arms. 
They growing upon naked rocks so that they are always visi- 
ble and taken by the incuriose (sic) to be a kind of sea-moss; 
at low water many of them are bare, at such times they never 
disclose or expand their arms.” 
Perhaps some reader will be able to supply the name of this 
“ Actinea.”—Agricultural Experiment Station, Las Cruces, 
New Mexico, March 4, 1894. 
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