244 ANTHOZOA HELIANTHOIDA. 



Hah. Dredged up among CorbulEe and other inhabitants of mud, 

 in four fathoms water, in Loch Ryan, on the west coast of Scotland, 

 E. Forbes. " On the beach at Balbriggan (Ireland), after a storm, 

 in March 1843," Mrs. W. J. Hancoch 



" It is a free Actinia, about an inch and a half in length, the body 

 large above, but tapering at its posterior extremity to a point. The 

 mouth is round and rather small, surrounded by a circle of nume- 

 rous long filiform tentacula, which are nearly equal in thickness 

 throughout their lengths. The body is of a pink colour, with regu- 

 lar distant longitudinal white stripes : the tentacula are greenish, 

 with a dark line down the middle of each. It is probable the 

 animal fixes itself in mud by means of its attenuated extremity, 

 which I regard as analogous to the terminations of Virgularia and 

 Pennahda. In its anatomy it differs not from other Actinioe, save 

 that its ovaries converge." E. Forbes. 



FAMILY— LUCERNARIAD^. 



This family has the same relationship to the other Helianthoida 

 that Hydra has to the Hydroida. " Ovariorum dispositio Medusis 

 affinior est quam Actiniis. In eundemque characterem ventriculi 

 liberi pendulique defectus abit." Ehrenherg. . 



83. LucEBNARiA,* Muller. 



Character. — Body someivhat campamdate, fixed when at 

 rest hy a narro^o disk or stalk : mouth quadrangular, in the 

 centre of an umlrellar expansion : tentacula disposed in tufts 

 at regular distances on the peristomatous margin. 



1. L. FAScicuLARis, '•'■ pedunclc of the hody produced : tufts 

 of tentacula in pairs, about a hundred in each^ J. Fleming, 



Plate XLV. Fig. 3—7. 



Lucemaria fascicularis, Fleming in. Wern. Mem. ii. 248, pi. 18, fig. 1,2. Fkm. Brit. 

 Anim. 499. Templeton in Mag. Nat, Hist. ix. 304. Lamouroux in Mem. du 

 Mils. ii. 470. Ehrenh. Corall. 43. 



Hah. Common in Zetland, where " it is chiefly found on the leaves 

 of Fucus digitatus and F. esculentus, which grow in deep water," 

 Fleming. " Found on the coast at Donaghadee, after a strong 

 easterly gale, adhering to a fragment of Fucus serratus," Templeton. 



* From lucerna, a lamp. 



