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Dr. Johnston considers this a variety of the preceding 

 species, but where we have a permanent difference in the 

 appearance of an animal, connected with a difference of 

 habit, there is I think sufficient grounds for making it a 

 distinct species. Dr. Johnston says, " this variety attaches 

 itself to shelving rocks, where it is concealed and covered 

 over by a layer of sand, protruding the tentacula through a 

 small aperture at the surface opposite the mouth ; on the 

 recess of the tide nothing of the animal can be seen, and its 

 presence or locality is only to be guessed at by the holes in 

 the sand." This forms a good characteristic habit, but the 

 opposite of the last kind, which prefers a clean rock. 



SEA-DAISY. A. Bellis. Body lengthened, the lower part 

 narrow and smooth, the upper enlarged and glandularly 

 warty ; oral disc expanded, lobed ; tentacula, in several 

 rows, variegated. 



Actinia Bellis, Ellis and Solander's Zooph., p. 2, no, 2. 

 Turton's Lin., vol. 4, p. 103. Hydra Bellis, Stewart's Elem., 

 vol. 2, p. 451. Actinia Peduculata, Pennant's Brit. Zoology, 

 vol. 4, p. 49. Fleming's Brit. An., p. 498. Templeton in 

 Mag. Nat. Hist, vol. 9, p. 303. A. Bellis, Johnston's Brit. 

 Zooph., p. 212. 



Hah. In sheltered situations and covered pools, under 

 Chapel Hill, Polperro, Talland sand bay, Lantivet bay, and 

 Whitsand bay ; pools about Mount's bay, in companies of 

 four or five. 



The base of this species is narrow and smooth, above it is 

 expanded and tubercular or waited, to which, fragments of 

 shells and stones adhere, so as to blend the appearance of 

 animal with the surrounding ground. When expanded, the 

 variegated tentacula, which are arranged in several rows and 

 vary in length, present a very elegant and beautiful appear- 

 ance. Its general colour is carnation, changing into purple, 

 violet, and brown, sometimes interspersed with sap-green 

 spots. The colour is however liable to variations in the depth 

 and lightness of the tints, and the tubercles are sometimes 

 confined to the upper portion of the body and at Others 

 extend to the foot ; so that there appears to be no specific 

 difference between this and the next. 



STUDDED SEA-FLOWER. A. Gemmacea. Body co- 

 nical, variously coloured, covered with warty protube- 

 rances, which are sometimes very obscure ; tentacula in 

 three or four rows, inner row longest, variegated with red, 

 brown, and white, transparent near the base. 



Actinia Gemmacea, Ellis and Solander's Zooph., p. 3, no. 3. 

 Turton's Lin., vol. 4, p. 1 04. Johnston's Brit. Zooph., p. 213, 



