A STR.EA CEA . SA GA RTIA DAi. 



THE GOLD-SPANGLED ANEMONE. 



Sagartia (?) chrysosplenium. 



Plate VI. fi<j. 8. 



Specific Character. Column green, with lines of golden-yellow dots : 

 tentacles pellucid, with green bars. 



Actinia chrysosplenium. Cocks, Rep. Cornw. Polyt. Soc. 1851, 5 ; 



pi. i. fig. 17. Johnston, Brit. Zooph. Ed. 



2, 214 ; pi. xxxvii. figs. 1 — 3. 

 Sagartia (?) chrysosplcnimn. Gosse, Annals N. H. Set-. 3. i. 416. 



GENERAL DESCRIPTION. 

 Form. 



Base. Adherent to stones : slightly exceeding the column. 



Column. Smooth, studded with numerous scattered suckers (or loop- 

 \ holes), resembling punctures. Form shortly cylindrical, becoming conoid 

 in contraction. 



Disk. Smooth. 



Tentacles. Few, neai-ly equal in size, rather short, stout, and obtusely 

 pointed. 



Moi'th. Set on a roundish cone. Lips slightly puckered or imperfectly 

 furrowed. 



Acontia. None have been observed. 



Colour. 



Column. Green, varying in tint from a bright pea-green, to that of a 

 dark holly-leaf; marked with longitudinal bands of spots of a rich golden 

 yellow ; a line of the same golden hue margins the base. 



Disk. Yellowish-brown ; gonidial tubercles bright golden yellow. 



Tentacles. Pellucid, sometimes nearly white, crossed by transparent 

 green bars. 



Size. 



About an inch in height ; the diameter of the base and of the flower 

 three-quarters of an inch ; that of the column five-eighths of an inch. 



Locality. 



The coast of Cornwall. Under-surfaces of stones at extreme low water, 

 and rock-pools. 



