ASTR^EACEA. 
EAGARTIAD.E. 
THE ORNATE ANEMONE. 
Sagartia ornata. 
Plate II. Figs. 9, 10. 
Specific CTiamcter. Basal region of tlie tentacles, and the outer region of 
the radii blackish : a vrhite bar across the former, and a white cordate spot 
on the latter. 
Actinia ornata. Holdsworth, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1856. PI. v. figs. 
5, 6, 7, 8. 
GENERAL DESCRIPTION. 
Form, 
Ease. Adherent to the roots of Laminaria : slightly exceedmg the 
column. 
Column. Minutely corrugated ; studded on the upper half with suckers, 
more numerous as they approach the summit. Form in expansion elon- 
gate, cylindrical. 
Tentacles. Moderately numerous, in five rows ; those of the first row 
rather stoutly conical, comparatively short ; the rest diminishing rapidly 
as they approach the margin. 
Mouth. Not raised on an obvious cone. Lip tumid. 
Aconlia. Emitted freely. 
Colour. 
Column. Dark orange-brown, paler at the base. Suckers pale. 
Eislc. Central moiety pale orange, changing to a rich purplish brown on 
the outer moiety. The radii of the first and second rows of tentacles 
separated by narrow yellow bands slightly diverging “as they proceed 
outwards, and at their extremities partially surrounding the bases of the 
tentacles, according to the following arrangement. The first tentacle may 
be said to arise from the space heticeen two pairs of bands, the second being 
situated within the pair;* the band bifurcates near its exti’emity, and 
incloses the third tentacle : these branches again divide and form a similar 
inclosure for the tentacles of the fourth row :+ beyond these is a set of 
* The apparent distribution of the bands in pairs is merely a necessary 
result of the fact that the secondary radii ai'e narrower than the primary. 
t Hence the yellow bands are doubtless the united radii of the tertian 
and quartan series. 
