AUTRAiACEA. 
SAGARTIADJi. 
THE DAISY ANEMONE. 
Sagartia hellis. 
Plate I. Fig. 2. 
Specific Character. — Body salver-shaped, the disk forming a shallow cir- 
cular cup, often wavy at the margin, of which the column is the foot. 
Tentacles small, numerous, in six rows, the outer ones mere crenations of 
the margin. 
Actinia bellis. 
pedunculata. 
Templetonii. 
Actinocereus pedunculata. 
Crihrina hellis. 
Sagartia bellis. 
Ellis and Solander, Zooph. 2. J ohnston, 
Br. Zooph. Ed. 2. i. 228; pi. xlii. figs. 1*, 
3 — 6. Gosse, Devonsh. Coast, 25; pi. i. 
figs. 1, 2. 
Pennant, Br. Zool. iv. 102. 
Cocks, Rep. Coi’nw. Polyt. Soc. 1851. 8, 
pi. ii. figs. 10, 14. 
Blainv., Diet. Sci. Nat. 1830; lx. 194. 
Ehrenb., Corall. 41. 
Gosse, Linn. Trans, xxi. 274 : Man. Mar. 
Zool. i. 28 ; fig. 41. 
GENERAL DESCRIPTION. 
Form. 
Rase. Adherent to rocks; expanded considerably beyond the diameter 
of the column ; the outline often undulate. 
Column. Smooth on the lower half, on the upper studded with suckers, 
to which in freedom are often firmly attached minute fragments of shell, 
gravel, &c. ; generally without wrinkles, furrows, or corrugations ; but 
occasionally invected. Substance firmly fleshy. Form exceedingly variable, 
sometimes being thick and low, nearly equalling the disk in diameter ; 
but, when expanded to the utmost, the column generally takes the form 
of a comparatively slender, lengthened, and perfeetly cylindrical footstalk, 
abruptly expanding to a great cu’cle, the margin of which is cut into 
minute notches which form the outermost row of tentacles. 
Disk. In the condition just mentioned, this is a broad horizontal plate, 
or a slightly concave saucer, of which the rim is perfectly circular, though 
this form is often disguised by its being thrown into undulations, some- 
times approaching to frillings. 
Tentacles. Small, but numerous, arranged in about six rows ; the first 
and second series containing about twelve each, the third about twice 
