ASTRjEACEA. 
SAGARTIADjE. 
THE AYAETED COEKLET. 
Phellia gausapata. 
PL.VTE VII. fig. 1. 
Specific Character. Epidermis dense ; firmly adherent throughout ; wai’ted. 
Phellia gausapata. Gosse, Annals N. H. Ser. 3. ii. 194. 
GENERAL DESCRIPTION. 
Fokm. 
Base. Adhei’ent to rocks : scarcely exceeding column. 
Column. Cylindrical, pillar-like when expanded ; smooth in extension, 
but in contraction becoming coarsely corrugated, so as to present large 
irregularly rounded knobs or warts. To this a dense epidennis is firmly 
adherent throughout, having no free margin ; and, being modelled on it, 
it is covered with coarse warts or knobs ; “ resembling, when contracted, a 
straw bee-hive.” {C.W.P.) 
DisTc. A deep cup or funnel. 
Tentacles. Sixteen, arranged in two rows, eight in each : those of the 
first row twice as thick and long as those of the second, with which they 
alternate ; variable in form, sometimes being conical and pointed, at others 
short, rounded, and even slightly inflated at the tips. 
Mouth. Not raised on a cone : lip thickened “ as in dianthus." 
Acontia. Freely dischai-ged from the base ; long and veiy slender. 
Colour. 
Column. Exposed portion pellucid white, with sub-opaque whitish longi- 
tudinal streaks. 
Epidermis. Pale yellowish, with darker warts ; the separation of which 
in extension causes the general tint to appear lighter, and vice versd. 
Dish. (No note has been taken of its colours.) 
Tentacles. Pellucid drab, with the lower part and a broad .ring near the 
tip dark brown, undefined : pix)bably there is also an intermediate ring of 
paler brown. 
Size. 
Diameter of column half an inch ; height three-fourths of an inch. 
Locality. 
Rocks at low-water : extreme north-east of Scotland. 
