ASTRuEACEA. 
SAGARTIADJ^. 
THE TEANSLUCENT ANEMONE. 
Sogartia ^ura. 
Plate III. Fig. 6. 
Specific Character. ‘Wholly pellucid-white, without markings. 
Actinia pellucida. Alder, Catalogue of Zooph. of N'orthumb. aud 
Durh., 43. 
Sagartia pellucida. GossE, Anuals N. H. Sei’. 3, vol. i. jo. 415. 
jiura . Alder, in litt. 
GENERAL DESCRIPTION. 
Form. 
Rase. Adherent to shells from deep water : somewhat exceeding the 
column. 
Column. Perfectly smooth, without visible suckers. Substance puljiy. 
Form cylindrical, a little higher than wide, when extended, but nearly 
flat when contracted. 
Dish. Slightly concave ; the margin entire. 
Tentacles. Thirty or upward.s, arranged in aboirt three rows ; the inner 
ones longest (about twice the diameter of the disk in length) ; diminish- 
ing regularly outwards, the outei-most row being rather short. The inner 
ones jre usually carried more or less erect, the outer arching downwards. 
Mouth. Set on a small cone. 
. Colour. 
The animal is wholly without positive colour, except that the tentacles 
have sometimes a slight tendency to become sub-opaque at each extremity, 
when they assirme a white appearance in these parts. Occasionally a few 
white lines occur on the column ; but these appear to be merely the edges 
of the septa, seen through the transparent integuments. 
Size. 
About a quarter of an inch in height, aud one-sixth in diameter of 
column ; expanse nearly half an inch. 
Locality. 
The coast of Northumberland. On old shells from deep-water. 
