ACTINIA. 



This was likewife found by Dr. Gartner in Cornwall. 



The ftem is quite fmooth, and inclining to a carnation 

 color. The outride of the cup and body of the animal is 

 marked with white protuberances or warts, and from a 

 flefh color changes infenfibly towards the border of the 

 cup, firft into purple, then into a violet, and at laft into 

 a dark brown. The feelers that furround the difk are al- 

 moft tranfparent, and of different lengths and colors ; 

 fome of them are of a pale alii color with brown fpots, 

 others of a chefnut color with white fpots. The difk or 

 upper part is formed like a ftar, compofed of variegated 

 rays of a beautiful mixture of brown, yellow, afh color 

 and white. 



3. Actinia gemmacea. Studded Sea Star-flower, 



Actinia difciflora^ ten- This animal flower has a 



taculis retra&ilibus fub- difk furrounded by femitran- 

 diaphanis, corf ore tnilia- fparent claws, which it has the 

 ribus glandulis longitudi- power of drawing in. Its body 

 naliter Jlriato. is ftriated lengthways with 



thoufands of little glands. 



Hydra difciflora, tentaculis retra&ilibus fubdiaphanis^ 



cor pore cylindrico mi liar i bus glandulis longitudinaliter 



jiriato. Gasrtner Phil. Tranf. Vol. 52. pag. 82. tab. r. 



% 4-. 



This is likewife one of Dr. Gartner's from the coaft of 

 Cornwall, and only to be met with in the fiffures of the 

 rocks. 



The color of the ftem is of a pale red near the bafe, the 

 reft of a yellow mixt with grey am color. The glands of 

 the middle row are white, the reft of the fame color with 

 the ftem. The feelers are of a whitifh color, varied at the 



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