A, E. Verrill—The Bermuda Zslands; Coral Reefs. 259 
This is the most abundant and conspicuous of the larger actinians 
found on the reefs. It generally occupies some hole or crevice in or 
between the rocks, in which the body is entirely concealed, but the 
large and long, soft, waving tentacles may project 4 to 8 inches or 
more beyond the disk. When several individuals stand side by side 
in a continuous wide crack, the long row of crowded tentacles pre- 
sents a very peculiar appearance, for in length, thickness, general 
color, and soft appearance they look much like some slender- 
branched sponges. The tentacles are usually swollen at base and 
often as large as one’s fingers, or larger, and usually taper more or 
less regularly to the tip, but at times they may be swollen and 
thickest in the middle or at the tips. Their color is usually pale 
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Figure 113.—Condylactis gigantea, variety with pink tips to tentacles, about + 
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Figure 114.—A small tentacle enlarged. Both from colored drawings by A. H.V. 
fawn, dull brown, or grayish, finely transversely lined with paler or 
white interrupted wavy or zigzag rings or vermiculate lines and 
spots, sometimes specked with white, and nearly always broadly 
tipped with bright pink, magenta, crimson, or bright purple, below 
which there is usually a pale or white band, usually not definitely 
limited proximally. But the terminal pink and white colors are 
wanting in some examples, when the white band extends to the tip, 
and sometimes the tentacles are nearly plain yellowish, greenish, or 
pale flesh-color, with lines of reddish specks and spots. The body is 
