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Family 2. BUNODIDAE. 



Body often of large size, with a strong' entodermal sphincter and 

 usually a tuberculated outer surface: about 10 genei-a. 



1. BuNODES Gosse. Outer surface with longitudinal rows of tuber- 

 cles; tentacles rather short, retractile: 15 species. 



B. Stella Verrill (Fig. 231). Body 50 mm. high; oral disc 35 mm. 

 wide; tentacles 48 to 72: north of Cape Cod, in shallow water. 



2. AuLACTiNiA Verrill. Outer surface with longitudinal rows of 

 tubercles on upper half; lower half smooth: several species. 



A. capitata Ver. Body 15 cm. high and 35 mm. in diameter; ten- 

 tacles ^Q in 4 circles: North Carolina to Florida, in shallow water. 



3. Epiactis Verrill. Outer surface of body with a band of egg 

 pits around its middle: 1 species. 



E. prolifera Ver. (Fig. 232). Height 10 mm.; diameter 12 mm.; 



Fig. 231 



Fig. 232 



Fig. 233 



Fig. 231 — Bunodes stella (from Parker). Fig. 232 — Epiactis prolifera (from Parker). 

 Fig. 233 — Tealia crassi-cornis (from Parker). 



tentacles about 96; egg pits as many as 30 or 40: Pacific coast from 

 Puget Sound to San Francisco. 



4. Tealia Cosse. Outer surface with scattered tubercles; body 

 short and thick and more or less covered with sand, bits of shell, etc.; 

 tentacles short and thick : several species. 



T. crassicornis (0. F. Miiller) (Fig. 233). Height 5 cm.; diameter 

 12 cm. ; tentacles 160 ; color reddish with gray tubercles : northern seas, 

 extending southward to Puget Sound and i^ape Cod, in 14 to 40 fathoms; 

 Europe. 



Family 3. PAEACTIDAE. 



Anemones with a strong sphincter and a smooth outer surface : about 

 10 genera. 



1. Paractis Milne-Edwards. Body with longitudinal grooves; ten- 

 tacles slender, not very numerous, and all of equal length: several 

 species. 



P. rapiformis (Lesson) (Fig. 234). Body 80 mm. high extended, 

 and 25 mm. in diameter; surface nearly smooth, pinkish in color; pedal 



