242 ANTHOZOA HELIANTHOIDA. 



diseased or enfeebled state the animal exerts the power to do so to 

 partial extent : " Although this species has not the power of short 

 ening its feelers in the same way as the Actinias, yet, if specimen 

 be kept for some time in sea-water, their length becomes dimi 

 nished, not by contraction, but by a process of imagination." 

 A. H. Hassall. 



2. A. TUEDI.E, body somewhat cylindrical, smooth orwrinHec 

 with circular folds; tentacula numerous, shorter than thi 

 lody, longitudinally striate. Gr. J. 



Actinia Tuediae, Johnston in Mag. Nat. Hist. v. 163, fig. 58 ; and in Trans. Newc 

 Soc. ii. 246. Anthea Tuediae, Johns. Brit. Zooph. 221. Landsborougli in Scot 

 Christ. Herald for April, 1 840, p. 243. Anemonia edulis, Risso 1'Europ. merid. 

 289. 



Hob. Coast of Berwickshire, in deep water, rather rare, G. J 

 Cambray, on the west coast of Scotland, Rev. D. Landsborough. 



Fig. 53. 



Anthea Tuediae is amongst the largest of our species. The body, 

 when relaxed, generally measures three inches in length, and about 

 the same in diameter. It is of a uniform reddish or brownish- 

 orange colour, and either smooth or contracted at pleasure into cir- 

 cular folds. The base is smooth and orange- coloured, with a thin 

 areolar skin. The mouth is ever varying in size and form, and 

 there are often protruded from it vesicular -like lobes of a reddish 



