ASTRjEACEA. 
SAOARTIAD^. 
THE ROSY ANEMONE. 
Sagartia rosea. 
Plate I. Figs. 4, 5, 6. 
Specific Character. Tentacles all rose-coloured ; the first row sometimes 
with a broad dusky bar above a narrow one at the foot. 
Actinia rosea. 
pulcherrima. 
• vinosa. 
Sagartia rosea. 
Gosse, Devonshire Coast, p. 90, pi. i. figs. 5, 6 
(var. vinosa). 
Jordan, Ann. N. H. Ser. 2, vol. xv. p. 86 (var. 
pulcherrima). 
Holds WORTH, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1856 (var. 
vinosa). 
Gosse, Tenby, p. 365. Frontisp. (var. Fe- 
metana). 
GENERAL DESCRIPTION. 
Form. 
Base. Adherent to rocks : scarcely exceeding the column. 
Column. Minutely corrugated, studded on the upper half with suckers, 
to which fragments of gravel or shell occasionally adhere. Substance 
fie.shy. Form in expansion elongate, cylindrical. 
Fish. A shallow cup, the margins occasionally undulate. Radii strongly 
marked, and covered with transverse striae. 
Tentacles. Moderately numerous, in four or five rows, nearly equal in 
length (but this varies according to the variety) ; often arching regularly 
over the margin, but sometimes very small and forming a fine fringe. 
Mouth. Not raised on an obvious cone, often apparently four-lobed. 
Lip crenate. 
Acontia. Emitted copiously. 
Colour. 
Column. Deep brown, inclining more or less to dark red, paling to buff 
at the base. Suckers pale buff or whitish. 
Fish. Pale silvery olive, without markings, except an ill-defined dusky 
margin, produced by the blending of the bands that cross the foot of each 
tentacle. 
Tentacles. Clear rose-red or rose-purple, very brilliant; those of the 
outer row showing a slight tendency to lilac. Those of the first and 
