THE 
ROSE-TIPPED ACTINIA. 
Generic Character. 
Body fixing itfelf by the bafe, flefhy, oblong, cy- 
lindric, contra&ile, viviparous. 
Mouth terminal, dilatable, furrounded with ten- 
tacula. 
No other aperture. 
Specific Character , &c. 
ACTINIA with longitudinally-furrowed body, 
and unretradlile, {lender, very numerous 
fea-green tentacula with rofe-colored tips. - 
Sea Torchthiftle. 
Soland. & Ellis zoopb. p. 2. 
The rofe-tipped Sea-Anemone. 
Of all the Britifh Adlinite this may be confidered 
as the moft beautiful. It is reprefented on the plate 
in its natural fize, but is fometimes larger. It is 
faid to be more frequently feen about the coafts of 
Cornwall than elfewhere. In the Gmelinian edition 
of the Syflema Naturte this fpecies, with fome 
others, is placed in the genus Hydra. In color it 
occafionally varies, fpecimens fometimes occurring 
of a deep lead-color, and without the appearance 
of the rofe-colored tips of the tentacula. 
