ASTR^EACEA. SAGARTIAD^E. 



THE DAISY ANEMONE. 



Sagartia bellis. 



Plate I. Fig. 2. 



Specific Character. — Body salver-shaped, the disk forming a shallow cir- 

 cular cup, often wavy at the margin, of which the column is the foot. 

 Tentacles small, numerous, in six rows, the outer ones mere crenations of 

 the margin. 



Actinia bellis. Ellis and Solander, Zooph. 2. Johnston, 



Br. Zooph. Ed. 2. i. 228; pi. xlii. figs. 1% 

 3 — 6. Gosse, Devonsh. Coast, 25; pi. i. 

 figs. 1, 2. 

 pcdunculata. Pennant, Br. Zool. iv. 102. 



Templetonii. Cocks, Rep. Cornw. Polyt. Soc. 1851. 8, 



pi. ii. figs. 10, 14. 



Actinocereus pedunculata. Blainv., Diet. Sci. Nat. 1830; lx. 194. 



Cribrina bellis. Ehrenb., Corall. 41. 



Sagartia bellis. Gosse, Linn. Trans, xxi. 274 : Man. Mar. 



Zool. i. 28 ; fig. 41. 



GENERAL DESCRIPTION. 

 Forii. 



Base. Adherent to rocks; expanded considerably beyond the diameter 

 of the column ; the outline often undulate. 



Column. Smooth on the lower half, on the upper studded with suckers, 

 to which in freedom are often firmly attached minute fragments of shell, 

 gravel, &c. ; generally without wrinkles, furrows, or corrugations ; but 

 occasionally invected. Substance firmly fleshy. Form exceedingly variable, 

 sometimes being thick and low, nearly ecpialling the disk in diameter ; 

 but, when expanded to the utmost, the column generally takes the form 

 of a comparatively slender, lengthened, and perfectly cylindrical footstalk, 

 abruptly expanding to a great circle, the margin of which is cut into 

 minute notches which form the outermost row of tentacles. 



Disk. In the condition just mentioned, this is a broad horizontal plate, 

 or a slightly concave saucer, of which the rim is perfectly circular, though 

 this form is often disguised by its being thrown into undulations, some- 

 times approaching to frillings. 



Tentacles. Small, but numerous, arranged in about six rows; the first 

 and second series containing about twelve each, the third about twice 



