AST ACE A. 
SAGARTIADiE. 
THE PLUMOSE ANEMONE. 
Actinoloba dianthus. 
Plate I. Fig. 1. 
Specific Character. Body smootli, columnar when distended ; five inches 
and upwards in height : mouth strongly furrowed, rufous ; tentacles 
marked with a ring of white. 
Actinia dianthus. 
senilis. 
judaica. 
pentapetala. 
plumosa. 
aurantiaca. 
Actinoloba dianthus. 
Sagartia dianthus. 
Ellis, Phil. Trans. Ivii. 436; tab. xix. fig. 8. 
Johnston, Br. Zooph. Ed. 2. i. 232; pl.xliii. 
Daltell, Anim. of Scothmd, 235 ; pi. xlviii. 
figs. 6. 7 ; xlix. Gosse, Aquarium, Ed. 2. 
182 ; pi. V. Tugwell, Manual of Sea Ane- 
mones, 56 ; pi. i. 
Linn. Syst. Nat. 1089. 
Ibid. Syst. Nat. 1088. 
Penn. Br. Zool. iv. 104. 
Muller, Zool. Dan. iii. 12 ; tab. Ixxxviii. ; 
figs. 1, 2. 
JoRD.^N, Annals. N. H. Ser. II. vol. xv, 85. {juv.)- 
Blainville, Actinologie, 322. 
Gosse, Man. Marine Zool. i. 28. 
GENERAL DESCRIPTION. 
Form. 
Base. Adherent to shells and stones ; expanded considerably beyond 
the diameter of the column. 
Column. Smooth, lubricated profusely with mucus; destitute of suckers, 
warts, wrinkles, furrows, and corrugation.s. Substance fleshy, approaching 
to pulpy. Form cylindrical, terminating in a simple thickened pai'apet, 
which is separated from the outer tentacles by a fosse. 
Disk. Widely expanded, thin, greatly overhanging the column, deeply 
frilled. 
Tentacles. Exceedingly numerous, moderately large and scattered at 
about the middle of the semi-diameter of the disk, but becoming smaller 
and closer outward, until they are excessively crowded, and very minute 
at the margin. In extreme youth they are comparatively few, and much 
longer in proportion. 
Mouth. Not raised on a cone ; lip thick, divided into lobes by strongly 
marked furrows. A single groove only at one of the mouth-angles, guarded 
by a pair of tubercles. 
