ASTR^ACEA. 
SAGARTIAD^E. 
THE PALLID ANEMONE. 
Sagartia jgaUida. 
Plate III. F'ujs. 4, 5. 
Specific Character. Tentacles numerous, slender, white, each rising 
between two bowed blue lines. 
Actinia pallida. Holdsworth, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1856, pi. v. fig. 4. 
Safjartia pallida. Gosse, Annals N. H. Ser. 3. vol. i. ji. 415. 
GENERAL DESCRIPTION. 
Fokm. 
Base. Adherent to rocks ; considerably wider than column ; outline 
undulate. 
Column. Smooth, without conspicuous suckers. Substance pul^)}'. 
Form cylindrical, pillar-like, about twice as high as wide, when extended, 
but very flat when contracted. Margin a low parapet. 
Disk. Flat or slightly concave ; the margin entire. 
Tentacles. Numerous, arranged in four rows; moderately long, slender, 
and slightly tapering to the tips, their length regularly diminishing from 
the flrst row outwards. They are commonly carried sub-erect, the 
external rows arching outwards. 
Mouth. ? 
Acontia. Emitted from the mouth in some abundance, but not very 
readily. 
Colour. 
Column. Pellucid whitish. White longitudinal lines are sometimes 
visible, but they are merely the edges of the septa, seen thi’ough the 
ti’anslucent skin, and not bands of surface-coloui’. 
Disk. Pellucid whitish. 
Tentacles. Pellucid whitish. The foot of each ten- 
tacle is embraced by two curved lines of dark blue, 
which approach each other without meeting ; and 
l^ass off in front towards the centre of the disk, and 
behind towards the margin, in the form represented 
in the accompanying figure. The general effect is to tentacle of 
produce a bluish shade on that region of the disk palliea 
from which the tentacles sin'ing. (viewed vertically). 
