THE 
ANEMONE ACTINIA. 
O R 
SEA ANEMONE. 
Generic Character. 
Body oblong, nearly cylindric, fixing itfelf by the 
bafe, the top expanfile and tentaculated 
within. 
Mouth terminal, furnilhed with crooked teeth. 
No other Opening except that of the mouth. 
Specific Character. 
ACTINIA, of a nearly cylindric Ihape, {hortilh, 
with the interior tentacula ramified, the ex¬ 
terior ones conic and obtufe, Colour red. 
When we take a view of the lower orders of Zoolo¬ 
gy, we find a large and Angular fet of beings, which 
are fo widely diftin(9t from the other tribes of the ani 
mal world, that they feem almoft as nearly allied to 
vegetables as to animals. Many of thefe curious pro¬ 
ductions of Nature are arranged by Linnaeus under the 
title of Mollufca ; which title is one of the fubdmfi- 
ons of the Linnsean tribe of Vermes. Of the various 
