ASTR.EACEA. 
SAGARTIAD.E. 
THE FISII-MOUTH ANEMO^^E. 
Sagartia ichthy stoma, 
{Sp. nov.) 
PL.i.TE II. Fig. 7. 
Specific Character. Tentacles minute, marginal ; each having two 
narrow black bars across the foot. 
GENERAL DESCRIPTION. 
Form. 
Base. Adherent to rocks or shells ; not exceeding the column. 
Column. Coarsely corrugated, with no (observed) suckers. Form (in 
button) low, nipple-like, with a coarsely-puckered involution ; (in flower) 
cylindrical, in height about equal to its diameter. 
lyisTc. A shallow saucer ; with radii strongly marked ; the margin 
slightly exceeding the diameter of column. 
Tentacles. Moderately numerous, arranged in three rows, set very close 
to the margin of disk ; neaidy equal in size, very small, short, and conical. 
Mouth. Set on a large cone. Lip very tumid, coarsely fuiTowed. 
Colour. 
■ Column. Brownish-scarlet, becoming pale towards the top, and tinged 
with purple at the very summit. 
Disk. Pale fawn or bay, with numerous radiating lines of black, so 
thick at the outer half of the area as to give the efiect of a broad, black, 
slightly-interrupted ring. A pair of gonidial radii, opposite, white. 
Tentacles. Pellucid white, marked at the foot with two 
close-set, narrow bars of black, and a broad ill-defined ring of 
dusky near the middle. The radial lines of black wind sinu- 
ously among the tentacles, on the pale ground of the disk, with 
a distinct and pretty efiect. 
Month. Lip deep rich scarlet. 
Size. 
Button half an inch in height. Flower throe-fourths of an 
inch in diameter. tentacle 
{front). 
