CARYOPHILLIACEA, 
CAPNEAJ)^. 
THE GLOBEHOEN. 
Corynactis vtridis. 
Plate IX. Figs. 1—5. 
Specific Character. Rarely exceeding half an inch in height ; trans- 
parent ; tentacles veiy unequal. 
Corynactis vindis. Allmax, Ann. Nat. Hist. Ser. 1, xvii. 417 ; pi. xi. 
JOHNSTOX, Brit. Zooph. Ed. 2, i. 205 ; pi. xxxv. 
figs. 10, 11. Cocks, Rep. Cornw. Soc. 1851, 3; 
pi. i. figs. 3 — 5. M. Edwards, Hist. Corail. i. 258. 
Allmanni. Tuompsox, in Johnst. Br. Zooph. Ed. 2, i. 474 ; fig. 
85. Cocks, Rep. Cornw. Soc. 1851, 4; pi. i. fig. 
6. Gosse, Dev. Coast, 422 ; pi. viii. figs. 8 — 10. 
Ibid. Man. Mar. Zool. i. 28 ; fig. 39. E. P. Wright, 
Nat. Hist. Rev. vi. 122 ; pi. xiii. 
GENERAL DESCRIPTION. 
Form. 
Base. Adherent to rocks and shells ; generally broader than column ; 
its outline sometimes slightly undulate. 
Column. Pillar-like, very variable in height and shape ; the margin 
forming a distinct parapet or terrace, crenated within, but not separated 
from the tentacles by a fosse. Surface smooth, or slightly furrowed, 
lubricous. Substance pulpy, transparent. 
Disk. Circular, never waved, often greatly exceeding the column, flat 
or slightly concave ; smooth, with the radii marked, but no gonidial 
distinction. 
Tentacles. Upwards of 100, set in four rows, — 16, 24, 32, 32, = 104 ; 
the outer rows largest ; each composed of a more or less pillar-like or 
conical stem, and a globular head : in the inner rows, the stem is very 
short, and the head nearly sessile. The outer rows usually diverge 
upward and outward, projecting over the margin, and not seldom hang 
downward. 
Mouth. Protrusile at pleasure into a truncate cone or cylinder, sur- 
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