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ANTIIOZOA HELIANTHOIDA. 



diseased or enfeebled state the animal exerts the power to do so to a 

 partial extent : — " Although this species has not the power of short- 

 ening its feelers in the same way as the Actinias, yet, if specimens 

 be kept for some time in sea-water, their length becomes dimi- 

 nished, not by contraction, but by a process of invagination." — 

 A. U. Hassall. 



2. A. TuEDi.E, bodi/ somewhat cylindrical^ smooth orwrinMed 

 with circular folds ; tentacula numerous, shorter than the 

 hody^ longitudinally striate. Gr. J. 



Actinia Tuediae, Johnston in Mag. Nat. Hist. v. 163, fig. 58 ; and in Trans. Newc. 

 Soc. ii. 246. — Anthea Tuediae, Johns. Brit. Zooph. 221. Landshorough in Scot. 

 Christ. Herald for April, 1840, p. 243. — Anemonia edulis, Risso TEurop. merid. v. 

 289. 



Hah. Coast of Berwickshire, in deep water, rather rare, G. J. 

 Cambray, on the west coast of Scotland, Rev. D. Landshorough. 



Fig. 53. 



Anthea Tuedife is amongst the largest of our species. The body, 

 when relaxed, generally measures three inches in length, and about 

 the same in diameter. It is of a uniform reddish or brownish- 

 orange colour, and either smooth or contracted at pleasure into cir- 

 cular folds. The base is smooth and orange- coloured, with a thin 

 areolar skin. The mouth is ever varying in size and form, and 

 there are often protruded from it vesicular -like lobes of a reddish 



