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TAB. IV. 
ACTINIA equina. 
Class 6. Vermes. Order 2. Mollusca. 
Gen. Char. Body waited, fixed by the base, with 
one terminal aperture or mouth, surrounded by 
numerous cirrhi. 
Spec. Char. Greenish, with a rosy foramen or 
mouth, pale rosy cirrhi, with an aperture at the 
extremity of each. 
Synt. Actinia rufa? Gmel. v. l.p. 3131. 
Actinia equina ? Linn. Syst. ed. 12. v. l.p. 1088. 
Dicquem. Phil. Trans, v. 63. p. 361. t. 16, 17. 
f. 10-12. 
rp 
1 hese have been found several times of late, generally 
alter the most violent storms, by Dr. Smith of Yarmouth ; 
who has occasionally kept them for a twelvemonth or more, 
giving them fresh sea water every day, and feeding them 
with oysters or muscles. Like others of ilie genus, this 
animal forms a sort of ball when at rest — see the bottom 
figure ; and it is curious to observe the various appearances 
it assumes while expanding to the size of the upper figure. 
1 he cirrhi, being formed as it were for arms to the animal, 
are often displayed in so deliberate a manner that it would 
seem to have very little sensibility, were it not often very quick 
in drawing them in when disturbed. When touched at the 
