ASTR.EACEA. 
SAOARTIAD.E. 
THE SANDALLED ANEMONE. 
Sagartia sjyliyrodeUi. 
Plate I. Fiys. 8, 9. 
Specific Character. Tentacles few, thick, pm’e white ; the foot of each 
inclosed within a slender ring of purple, which passes off in a line towards 
the margin. 
Actinia Candida. GosSE, Devonsh. Coast, 430; ph viii. figs. 11, 12, 
13 (“ The Purple Spotted Anemone”). 
Sagartia Candida. Ibid. Linn. Trans, xxi. 274 ; Man. Mar. Zool. i. 28. 
tphyrodeta. Ibid. Annals N. H. Ser. 3, vol. i. p. 415. 
GENERAL DESCRIPTION. 
Form. 
Base. Adherent to rocks; expanded beyond the column. 
Column. Smooth, without conspicuous suckers. Substance pulpy. 
Form cylindrical; the height in general slightly exceeding the diameter. 
Disk. Flat or slightly concave ; the margin entire. Outline circular. 
Radii di.stinct. , 
Tentacles. About forty-eight, arranged in four rows ; of which the first 
and second contain each eight, the third and fourth each sixteen. Those 
of the first row are by far the largest, the size diminishing regnlarly to the 
external row : their form is stout and conical. They are usually spread 
horizontally, and have their tips frequently bent downwards. 
Mouth. Raised on a conspicuous cone, which, however, is not per- 
manent. Lip capable of great protrusion and distension. 
Aconlia, Emitted freely and coiiiously. 
Colour. 
Column. Marked longitudinally with many bands anjl narrow lines of 
opaque white, separated by interspaces, always narrow, of pale semi-pellucid 
brown, or drab. The suininit is occasionally tinged with reddish-brown. 
Disk. Opaque white, marked with five radiating lines of pellucid white. 
The tentacular region is marked with the ring-lines to be presently 
described. 
Tentacles. Ivory white, without the least appearance of spots or bars ; 
but at the veiy foot, where each tentacle springs from the horizontal disk, 
it is sunounded by a narrow ring of purplish, reddish, or dusky brown. 
