ACTINIA. S 



The 4 following fpecies were fent to the Earl of Hil'lP- 

 borough, by Mr. Greg from Dominica. They were pre- 

 ferred in fpirits, fo that their color and true appearance, 

 when alive, cannot well be known, which oceafions their 

 defcriptions, particularly the three laft, to be lefs exact* 



5. Actinia fociata. Cluflered Animal flower* Tab. r„ 



Fig. 1.2,. 

 Actinia tenuis^ tubce- This animal flower is of a 



formis, capitulo fubglobofo ilender make and trumpet 



tentaculatO) ex tubulo car- fhape, with a roundifli head 



nofo adhcerenti prolifera. furniflied with circles of claws ; 



from its bafe are produced 



fleflby adhering tubes, and 



from thence its progeny arifes* 



Tab. 1. Fig. i. 2. 



ABinia fociata. Ellis Phil. Tranf. Vol. 57. pag* 436. 

 tab. 19. fig. 1. 2. 



Though I have had the clufters of this animal drawn 

 erect on a rock, I am perfuaded from the flendernefs of 

 their make, their fituation would be more natural, if 

 they were inverted. 



Perhaps thefe may be the clufters of Waterbottles,, 

 which Hughes in his Natural Hiftory of Barbadoes, p. 296. 

 mentions to grow to the uppermoft part of the rock, 

 where his animal flowers are found. The natural fize 

 of a clufter of this animal flower may be feen in Plate 1. 

 fig. 1. At A, one of them is expanding its claws. Fig. 2. 

 expreffes one of them diflected lengthways, and magni- 

 fied to fhew the ftructure of the infide. B in fig. 1. 

 is the beginning of a young one growing up out of the 

 tube at the bafe. 



6. Actinia 



