VerriU, Rotes oti Badiata. 467 



sides may be simple rounded tubercles or elongated papilLe, witliout 

 perforations ; prominent suckers with a concave surface and tliickcned 

 border ; perforated verrucfe, ejecting water in contracting ; or, near 

 the margin of the disk, lobed or sparingly branched papilhv. The 

 margin may be a smooth thickened rim, crenulate or dentate by the 

 uppermost tubercles, or it may bear colored spherules. The disk is 

 usually broad. The tentacles large and not very numerous, usually 

 completely contractile. 



Bunodes Gosse. 



Crihriiia {pars) Elir., Corall. rothen Meeres, p. 40, 1834. 



Bv/nodes Gosse, Trans. Linn. Soc, xxi, p. 274, 1855 ; Actinologia Britannica, p. 189, 



1860; Verrill, Mem. Boston Soc, i, p. 15, 1864. 

 C&rem (pars) Edw. and Haime (non Oken), Corall., i, p. 263, 1857. 

 Anflwpleura (pars) Duch. and M., Siipl. Corall. Antilles, in Mem. Reale Accad., 



Turin, xxiii, p. 125, 1864-6. 



Corallum more or less elevated, texture firm, surface covered with 

 conspicuous verruciform suckers, concave above, or low rounded tuber- 

 cles, which are arranged in vertical lines along each ambulacral cham- 

 ber, the uppermost one in each row largest and j^rojecting at the mar- 

 gin, so as to form a somewhat dentate or tuberculate border. The 

 suckers usually, if not always, have the power of adhering firmly to 

 foreign substances. They generally decrease in numbers and size from 

 the margin downward, often becoming obsolete below. Tentacles 

 rather large, not numerous, very contractile, usually separated from 

 the margin by a narrow but distinct naked area or " fosse." 



Bunodes cruentata Gosse. 



Actinia cruentata Drayton (Couthouy, MS.), U. S. Expl. Exp., Zoophytes, p. 138, PI. 



3, fig. 23, 1846. 

 Cereus crtbentatus Edw. and H., Corall., i, p. 268, 1857. 

 Bwnodes cruentata Gosse, Actin. Britannica, p. 194, 1860. 



Column with small sucker-tubercles arranged in vertical rows, con- 

 spicuous near the margin, smaller toward the base. Tentacles about 

 48 in number, long, subulate. In expansion the mouth has four lobes. 

 Color faint pxTrplish red, with numerous vertical lines of darker red, 

 deepening to crimson near the disk ; suckers rose-white, yellowish 

 when expanded ; tentacles intense blood-red ; disk brownish purple, 

 alternating with radiating pale ochreous lines. 



Orange Bay, Terra del Fuego, buried to tentacles in sand, — J. P. 

 Couthouy, U. S. Expl. Exp. 



