ASTR^ACEA. 
ILTANTUIDJi. 
thp: crimson pufflet. 
Edwardsia carnea. 
Plate VII. Figs. 5, 6 : XII. Fig. 3 (magn.). 
Specific Character. Tentacles twenty-eight, pellucid crimson ; capitv.hm 
pellucid flesh-pink. 
Edicardsia camea. GossB, Annals N, H. Ser. 2. xviii. 219 ; pi. ix. figs. 
1—4. Ibid. Ser. 3. i. 418. 
GENERAL DESCRIPTION. 
Form. 
Column. Generally cylindrical, sub-equal in diameter throughout, worm- 
like, length to diameter as 10 : 1. Capitulum cylindrical, or slightly barrel- 
shaped, marked with eight invections and eight semi-invections, like the 
preceding ; margin tentaculate. Scapus slightly more coriaceous than the 
other regions, but clothed with a very rough epidermis, so slightly adherent 
that it frequently forms a partially free tube. Physa thin, membranous, 
globose, transparent, revealing the septa ; imperforate. 
Disk. Plane ; radii distinct. 
Tentacles. Twenty-eight, sub-marginal, arranged in three rows , — &, 8, 
12 = 28 (perhaps the ultimate number of the third row may be 16); 
vertatile in shape, being sometimes very short and fusiform, at others 
elongated to thrice the diameter of the disk, tapering and very slender. 
They generally radiate diagonally, arching outwards. 
Moiith. Set on a low cone; lip furrowed. 
Colour. 
Column. Capitulum translucent, delicately tinted with pink, each in- 
vection bounded by a fine line of opaque white or brilliant pale yellow, and 
marked with a longitudinal dash of the same near its foot. The stomach is 
plainly visible, as a thick axis of rich scarlet. Scapus and physa of the 
same rose-tinged translucency, but the epidermis of the former is of a 
brownish-yellow hue. 
Dish. A star of cream-white rays on a translucent ground. 
Tentacles. Lovely pellucid pink, sometimes with alternate bands of less 
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