A STR.EA CEA . SA GA RTIA DJS. 



THE ROSY ANEMONE. 



Sagartia rosea. 



Plate I. Figs. 4, 5, 6. 



Specific Character. Tentacles all rose-coloured ; the first row sometimes 

 with a broad dusky bar above a narrow one at the foot. 



Actinia rosea. Gosse, Devonshire Coast, p. 90, pi. i. figs. 5, 6 



(var. rinosa). 

 pulcherrima. Jordan, Ann. N. H. Ser. 2, vol. xv. p. 86 (var. 



pulcherrima). 

 vinosa. Holdsworth, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1856 (var. 



rinosa). 

 Sagartia rosea. Gosse, Tenby, p. 365. Frontisp. (var. De- 



metana). 



GENERAL DESCRIPTION. 

 Form. 



Base. Adherent to rocks : scarcely exceeding the column. 



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

 to which fragments of gravel or shell occasionally adhere. Substance 

 fleshy. Form in expansion elongate, cylindrical. 



Dish. A shallow cup, the margins occasionally undulate. Radii strongly 

 marked, and covered with transverse stria;. 



Tentacles. Moderately numerous, in four or five rows, nearly equal in 

 length (but this varies according to the variety) ; often arching regularly 

 over the margin, but sometimes very small and forming a fine fringe. 



Mouth. Not raised on an obvious cone, often apparently four-lobed. 

 Lip crenate. 



Acontia. Emitted copiously. 



Colour. 



Column. Deep brown, inclining more or less to dark red, paling to buff 

 at the base. Suckers pale buff or whitish. 



Disk. Pale silvery olive, without markings, except an ill-defined dusky 

 margin, produced by the blending of the bands that cross the foot of each 

 tentacle. 



Tentacles. Clear rose-red or rose-purple, very brilliant ; those of the 

 outer row showing a slight tendency to lilac. Those of the first and 



