ASTRjEACEA. 
SAGARTIAD^. 
THE EYED ANEMONE. 
Sagartia coccinea. 
Plate V. fig. 4 : XII. fig. 4 {magnified). 
Specific Character. Body rufous, with white lines ; tentacles pellucid, 
ringed with white, marked at the foot with a black bar, and two triangular 
black spots below it. , 
Actinia coccinea. Muller, Zool. Dan. Prod,; 231, No. 2792. Zool. 
Dan. ii. 30 ; pi. Ixiii. figs. 1 — 3. Johnston, Brit. 
Zooph. 2d Ed. p. 215. 
Sagartia coccinea. Gosse, Annals N. H. Ser. 3. vol. i. p. 416. 
GENERAL DESCRIPTION. 
Form. 
Base. Adherent to shells, in deep water : little exceeding the column. 
Outline irregularly cut and lobed. 
Column. Smooth, without visible suckers. Substance pulpy. Form 
cylindrical ; the height, when extended, twice the diameter ; the margin 
tentaculate. 
Dish. Flat; the margin entire. Outline circulai’, scarcely exceeding 
the diameter of column. Radii distinct, smooth. 
Tentacles. About sixty-four (in my largest specimen), arranged in three 
indistinct rows, of which the first and second contain each sixteen — the 
third, which is marginal, thirty-two. The inner rows are the largest, some 
of the outermost being minute points. Compared with the average of 
Anemones, they are short and thick, obtusely conical, and stand nearly 
erect. 
Mouth. Not raised on a cone. No distinct lip. 
Acontia. Protruded freely, both from column and mouth. 
Colour. 
Column. Light brownish orange, marked with many white or whitish 
longitudinal streaks from margin to base, more numerous below. These 
streaks are of varying width, but are in general equal or superior to the 
intermediate red spaces ; their edges are irregularly jagged. They are 
