ASTUTE ACE A. 
SAGARTIAD.E. 
THE GOLD-SPANGLED ANEMONE. 
Sagartia (?) chrysospJenium. 
Plate VI. fiy . 8. 
Specific Character. Column green, with lines of golden-yellow dots : 
tentacles pellucid, with green bars. 
Actinia chrysosplenium. Cocks, Rep. Cornw. Polyt. Soc. 1851, 5; 
pi. i. fig. 17. Johnston, Brit. Zooph. Ed. 
2, 214 ; pi. xxxvii. figs. 1 — 3. 
Sayartia (?) chrysosplenium. Gosse, Annals N. H. Ser. 3. i. 416. 
GEXERAL DESCRIPTION. 
Form. 
Base. Adherent to stones : slightly exceeding the column. 
Column. Smooth, studded with numerous scattered suckers (or loop- 
holes), resembling punctures. Form shortly cylindrical, becoming conoid 
in contraction. 
Disk. Smooth. 
Tentacles. Few, nearly equal in size, rather short, stout, and obtusely 
pointed. 
Mouth. Set on a roundish cone. Lips slightly puckered or imperfectly 
furrowed. 
Acontia. None have been observed. 
Colour. 
Column. Green, varying in tint from a bright pea-green, to that of a 
dark holly-leaf ; marked with longitudinal bands of spots of a rich golden 
yellow ; a line of the same golden hue margins the base. 
Disk. Yellowish-brown ; gonidial tubercles bright golden yellow. 
Tentacles. Pellucid, sometimes nearly white, crossed by ti-ansparent 
green bars. 
Size. 
About an inch in height ; the diameter of the base and of the flower 
three quarters of an inch ; that of the column five-eighths of an inch. 
Locality. 
The coast of Cornwall. Under-surfaces of stones at extreme low water, 
and rock-pools. 
