109 WORMS. MOLLUSCA. 34. Clava. 3¢. A@inia: 
34, CLAVA. Body flethy, gregarious, cla- 
vate, and fixed by a round peduncle: 
aperture {ingle and vertical. 
Parafitica, With a whitith pellucid peduncle, opake red club or head, 
and covered with pellucid conic cre& fpines. - 
Muller Berch, berl. Naturf Y. p. 406. tab. 5. fig. 3, 4. 
Inh.bits the Bale, on iea weeds, fhell-fith, and floating timy 
ber: lixe the Hydra it pofleffes the power of dilating and 
contracting the mouth, ; 
35. ACTINIA Body oblong, cylindrical, 
fleihy, contractile, fixed by the bafe; 
mouth terminal, expanfile, furrounded 
with numerous cirri, and without any 
other aperture. 
Thefe marine animals are viviparous, and have no other aper- 
ture except the mouth: they feed on fhell-fifh and other ma- 
rine animals, which they draw in with their tentacula or 
feclers, in a fhort time rejecting through the fame aperture, 
the fhells and indigettible parts: they aflume various forms, 
and when the tentacula are all expanded, have the appearance 
of full-blown flowers: many of them are eatable, and fome of 
them very fapid. 
Rufa, Rufous, with a rofy foramen or mouth, and pale cirri: 
Mull. Zool. Dan. 1. P. 75. tab. 23. 
Philof- Tranf. €3. tab.16. fig 1—3. Hill Anim. tab. 5. 
Inhabits the Qceaz, and adheres to rocks: its fhape is very va- 
riable, cylindrical, globular, or evolute: cirri whitifh, flender, 
flexible, moveable and fliorter than the diameter of the body, 
the tips truncate. 
*€raficore Body ted, with thick conic cirri. 
Kise” Shaw Natur. Mifeel. tab, 330 © Barbut tab. 5. figs 6, 
Bajier opufc. fubf. 3. p. 120, tab. 13. fig. 1. 
Dicquem. Phil, Lranfad, 63, tab. 16. fg. 10. tab. 17. f 11, 12. 
Inhabits the Atlantic, European, and North Seas. 
Body pale red, tranfverfely wrinkled: cirri whitifh at the tips. 
¥Plumola. Tentacula fmall: the margin furrounded with’ pencilled 
cirri. f Lon, 
Mull. Zool, Dan, 3, f. 12. tah. 88. fig. 1—4. 
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