266 A. E. Verrill— The Bermuda Islands; Coral Reefs. 
Asteractis flosculifera (Les.) Verrill. Ruffled Anemone. Figure 117. 
Actinia flosculifera Les., Journ. Acad. Sci. Philad., i, p. 174, 1817 (mot Oulactis 
flosculifera Duch. and Mich.) 
Oulactis fasciculata MeMurrich, Proc. Philad. Acad. Sci., 1889, p. 108; also 
in Heilprin’s ‘‘ The Bermuda Islands,” p. 112, pl. x, fig. 5 (section), 1889. 
Oulactis flosculifera McMurrich, Actinaria Bahama Is., pp. 56-58, pl. ii, fig. 
2 (general) ; pl. iv, figs. 12-14 (anatomy), 1889. 
Asteractis flosculifera Verrill. Amer. Journ. Sci., vol. vii, p. 47, 1899; Trans. 
Conn. Acad. Sci., x, p. 572, pl. lxviii, fig. 1 (Actinactis by error), 1900. 
Cradactis fasciculata McMurrich, Report on Actinie coll. by U. S. F. C. 
Steamer Albatross, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvi, p, 197, 1893. 
Actinostella flosculifera McMur., Boll. Mus. Turin., xx, p. 7, 1905. 
This species is common on the sand-flats in shallow water, where 
it lives buried in the sand up to its broad, expanded collar, but it is 
also found occasionally on the reefs, where sand collects in sheltered 
depressions under large stones. We found it in numerous localities.* 
Figure 108a.—Phellia rufa, about } nat. size. 
Figure 117.—Acteractis flosculifera, about 4 nat. size; b, three of the pseudo- 
fronds, enlarged. Both from colored figures by A. H. V. 
It is easily distinguished by the wide collar, external to the tenta- 
cles, made up, in large specimens, of about 48 pseudofronds, 
appearing slightly free at their outer ends, where there are two or 
three prominent tubercles; the upper surface of each is covered with 
* Several large specimens are in the collections made at Bermuda by Mr. G. 
Brown Goode in 1876. 
