ACTINIAD^E : ACTINIA. 



223 



Fig. 50. 



warts are all perforated, so that water contained in the body, as 

 well as the seminal filaments, are often ejected through them. 

 Mr. Cocks is convinced " that 

 the apertures on the body 

 have nothing anatomically to 

 recommend them to a notch 

 on the tubercular tally. They 

 are simple tubes with a trum- 

 pet-like base externally, pass- 

 ing between the muscular 

 fibres to the ovarian chambers 

 (Fig. 50), for the supply of 

 water and air in shallow pools, 

 or channels for the exit of the 

 ova. They form the points of 

 adhesion for all the stones, 

 shells, and sand, which cover 

 the body, and are, therefore, suctorial. 



14. A. GEMMACEA, body conoid, cylindric in extension, with 

 the glands in distinct rows extending from the disc to the base ; 

 tentacula ichitish, variegated. Gsertner. 



PLATE XXXVIII. FIG. 69. 



Ortie de mer, Reaumur in Mem. de TAcad. Roy. des Scienc. 1710, pi. 10, fig. 21, 

 23-26. Hydra disciflora, tentaculis retractilibus subdiaphanis ; corpora cylindrico, 

 miliaribus glandulis longitudinaliter striato, Gartner in Phil. Trans, lii. 82, tab. 1, 

 fig. 4 ; copied in Encyclop. Method. Vers. pi. 70, fig. 4. Phil. Trans, abridg. xi. 

 529. Hydra gemmacea, Stew. Elem. ii. 451. Actinia gemmacea, Ellis and 

 Soland. Zooph. 3. Turt. Gmel. iv. 104. Turt. Brit. Faun. 131. Jameson in 

 Wern. Mem. i. 558. Act. verrucosa, Perm. Brit. Zool. iv. 103. Berk. Syn. i. 

 186. Lam. Anim. s. Vert. iii. 70. Stark Elem. ii. 412. Rapp Polyp. 50. Act. 

 glandulosa, Bosc Vers ii. 259. Rapp's Polyp. 52. Cribrina verrucosa, Ehrenb. 

 Corall. 40. 



Hob. Coast of Cornwall, Gcertner. 



" The colour of the stem is of a pale red near the base, the rest of 

 a yellow, mixed with grey ash colour. The glands of the middle row 

 are white, the rest of the same colour with the stem. The feelers 

 are of a whitish colour, varied at the upper part with several cross 

 lines and brown spots of an irregular figure, like the backs of some 

 snakes." Ellis. 



