A STR.EA CEA . SA OA RTIA D.E. 



THE SCARLET-FRINGED ANEMONE. 

 Sagartia miniata. 

 Plate II. Figs. 2, 3, 4. 



Specific Character. Tentacles with two sub-parallel dark lines along the 

 front : a white space at foot, crossed by a broad black bar, and a narrow 

 one below it. Outer row of tentacles with a scarlet core. 



Actinia miniata. Gosse, Annals N. H. Ser. 2, vol. xii. 127. 



omata. T. S. Wright, Proc. Roy. Phys. Soc. Edinb. 1855. 



Bunodes (?) miniata. Gosse, Man. Mar. Zool. i. 29. 



GENERAL DESCRIPTION. 

 Form. 



Base. Adherent to rocks and shells : slightly exceeding the column. 



Column. Minutely corrugated, studded on the upper half with large 

 suckers. Substance fleshy. Form thick, the height rarely exceeding the 

 breadth ; not very variable. 



Disk. Undulate, scarcely exceeding the diameter of the column ; radii 

 strongly marked, and covered with transverse stria;. 



Tentacles. Moderately numerous, arranged in about four rows. Those 

 of the first row average in length about half the diameter of the disk ; the 

 others diminish outwards, the last row being not more than one-fourth as 

 long as the first. They are lax, and are usually arched over the margin, or 

 thrown into sigmoid curves. 



Mouth. Not raised on a cone. Lip strongly crenate. 



Acontia. Emitted freely and copiously. 



Colour. 



Column. Deep rich brown, of a tint intermediate between burnt sienna 

 and scarlet, sometimes merging into deep orange, paling into buff or light 

 red towards the base, and often deepening into purplish-brown towards 

 the summit. Suckers pale buff, which in the button-state become con- 

 fluent, and form pale radiating bands, around the pursed aperture. 



Disk. Yellowish or greenish-grey, the radii distinctly mottled with 

 darker grey or brown ; very variable. Sometimes cne, or a pair, of broad 

 white gonidial radii. 



