252 A. E. Verrill—The Bermuda Islands; Coral Reefs. 
dead corals on the reefs and ledges, but is more abundant in shel- 
tered places along the shores. It was also found attached within 
the oscules of sponges, like the var. spongicola of MceMurrich. 
Var. bicolor, noy. Figures 105. 
The more common colors of the column are smoky brown, pale 
green, olive-green, greenish or yellowish brown, usually darker dis- 
tally, and often flecked with white spots. Flesh-colored specimens 
are not rare. 
104 105 
Figure 104.—Aiptasia tagetes, fully expanded, dark-olive green variety, show- 
ing two long directive tentacles ; about natural size; ac, acontia extruded ; 
b, var. bicolor, one of the tentacles more enlarged. 
Figure 105.—The same, light flesh-colored specimen of variety bicolor, some- 
what enlargéd. Both from colored drawings by A. H. V. 
The tentacles generally correspond with the body in color, but are 
usually paler. 
The larger mesenteries often show through the sides as pale longi- 
tudinal lines, and small specks of brown or green are usually present. 
Acontia are long, slender, white. 
It occurred jn abundance attached to floating leaves and twigs in 
the edges of the mangrove swamp at “ Fairy Lards.” It varies con- 
siderably in color at this place, but most had the body pale olive- 
green, the disk darker olive-green, with white loops around the bases 
