476 Verrill, Notes on Badiata. 



Margin surrounded by a circle of bright colored spherules, or eye- 

 tubercles. Tentacles rather large and numerous. Mouth large and 

 prominent with many lateral folds. 



Phymactis clematis Edwards and H., op. cit., p. 275. 

 Actinia clematis Drayton, op. cit., p. 130, PI. I, fig. 4 and 5, 1846. 



Column low, usually much broader than high, base and disk broad- 

 er ; the disk broadest, dilated, and thrown into four or five lobes or 

 folds by the undulations of the margin Pustules or verrucae of the 

 walls large, numerous, crowded. Marginal tubercles or spherules 

 large, rounded, 1-5 lines broad, yellow or red. Xaked portion of disk 

 less than half the Avhole diameter. Tentacles short and numerous, 

 rather stout, in about five series. 



Color quite variable ; " in one variety the body with the disk and 

 tentacles, is of a deep rich green color ; the centre of the disk a little 

 paler, the marginal tubercles a bright yellow, and the under part of 

 the foot yellow. In another the body is a deep crimson, with the tu- 

 bercles of the lateral surface deep green, and the marginal tubercles 

 vermilion ; the tentacles dark lake, and the central part of the disk 

 a paler lake ; under surface of the base a bright orange, approaching 

 vermilion," — J. Drayton. 



Diameter at middle 2 '5 inches; diameter of disk 4 ; height of col- 

 umn about 2 ; length of tentacles "5 to "Vo. 



Valparaiso, Chili, — U. S. Expl Exp. 



In tlie work of Edwards and Haime the locality is erroneously given 

 as " Cotes du Bresil." 



Phymactis florida Edw. and H., op. cit., p. 274. 



Actini I, florid t. Drayton, op. cit-, ]}. 131, PI. 2, fig. 6, 7, 8. 



Column low, about as broad as high, somewhat dilated at base and 

 sum nit ; margin of base undulate, of disk somewhat plicate, usually 

 in five folds; surface crowdedly covered with verrucae. Tentacles 

 " short, about '5 inch, nearly equal, subulate, stout, crowded, in 5 im- 

 perfect series." Disk strongly radiated, the tentacles occupying a 

 breadth of '5 to '15 of an inch. 



Color variable ; " one variety has a royal smalt-color, with the papillae 

 of the surface a fine ultramarine, the disk a paler blue, and the mar- 

 ginal tubercles pearly white. Another is verdigris-green, with the 

 papillae of the same color, and the marginal tubercles yellow. Another 

 apparently of the same color, though a little higher (near 3 inches), 

 has the papilke of the lateral surface of a sap-green color on a reddish 



