ABTRJEACEA. 
BVNOBIDjE. 
THE MAEIGOLD AV^VKTLET. 
Tealia digitata. 
Plate VI. Fig. 10. 
Specific Character. Warts unequal; stomach and warts red; tentacles 
not handed. 
Actinia digitata. Muller, Zool. Dan, iv. 16; pi. cxxxiii. Alder, Zooph. 
of Northumberland and Durham, 44. 
Cereus digitatus. Milne Edwards, Corall. i. 272, 
Tealia digitata. Gosse, Ann. Nat. Hist. Ser. 3, i. 417. 
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GENERAL DESCRIPTION. 
Form. 
Base. Adhering to shells, often exceeding the column; outline undulate. 
Column. Cylindrical, about as high as wide, sometimes dilated and 
« overarching above. Margin smooth, parapeted. Surface studded with 
large warts, having a tendency to form transverse rows, but with no 
perpendicular arrangement. “ A row of larger warts is usually found on 
the upper part, which, when the tentacles are withdrawn, form a tuber- 
culated margin to the aperture.” ( J. A.) 
DisTc. Flat, often partly everted and overarching. Radii strongly 
marked. 
Tentacles. Numerous, in three or four rows, stoutly conical, bluntly 
pointed, the first row largest, diminishing to the outmost, which are papil- 
lary : carried arching outwards. 
Mouth. Throat evertile, strongly ribbed. 
Colour. 
Column. Scarlet-orange, with paler warts. 
Dish. Dull red. 
Tentacles. Dull red, unbanded, a little deeper towards the tip. 
Mouth." Ribs of throat brownish-orange. 
