ASTR^ACEA. 
SAQARTIAD.E. 
THE SCAKLET-FRINGED ANEMONE. 
Sagartia viiniata. 
Plate II. Figs. 2, 3, 4. 
Specific Character. Tentacles with two sub-parallel dark lines along the 
front : a white space at foot, crossed by a broad black bar, and a narrow 
one below it. Outer row of tentacles with a scarlet core. 
Actinia miniata. Gosse, Annals N. H. Ser. 2, vol. xii. 127. 
ornata. T. S. Wright, Proc. Eoy. Phys. Soc. Edinb. 1855. 
Bimodes (?) miniata, Gosse, Man. Mar. Zool. i. 29. 
GENERAL DESCRIPTION. 
Form. 
Base. Adherent to rocks and shells ; slightly exceeding the column. 
Column. Jlinutely corrugated, studded on the upper half with large 
suckers. Substance fleshy. Form thick, the height rarely exceeding the 
breadth ; not very variable. • t 
Disk. Undulate, scarcely exceeding the diameter of the column; radii 
strongly marked, and covered with transverse stria;. 
Tentacles. Moderately numerous, airanged in about four rows. Those 
of the first row average in length about half the diameter of the disk ; the 
others diminish outwards, the last row being not more than one- fourth as 
long as the first. They are lax, and are usually arched over the rnsugin, or 
thrown into sigmoid curves. 
Mouth. Not I'aised on a cone. Lip strongly creuate. 
Acontia. Emitted freely and copiously. 
Colour. 
Column. Deep rich brown, of a tint intermediate between burnt sienna 
and scarlet, sometimes merging into deep orange, paling into buff or light 
red towards the base, and often deepening into purplish-brown towaids 
the summit. Suckers pale bufiF, which in the button-state become con- 
fluent, and form pale radiating bands, around the pursed aperture. 
Disk. Yellowish or greenish-grey, the radii distinctly mottled with 
darker grey or, brown ; very variable. Sometimes one, or a pair, of broad 
white gonidial radii. 
