ASTJLEACEA. SAGARTIADJi. 



THE FISH-MOUTH ANEMONE. 



Sagartia ichthy stoma. 



(Sp. nov.) 



Plate II. Fig. 7. 



Specific Character. Tentacles minute, marginal; each having two 

 narrow black bars across the foot. 



GENERAL DESCRIPTION. 



FOBM. 



Base. Adherent to rocks or shells : not exceeding the column. 



Column. Coarsely corrugated, with no (observed) suckers. Form (in 

 button) low, nipple-like, with a coarsely-puckered involution ; (in flower) 

 cylindrical, in height about equal to its diameter. 



Disk. A shallow saucer; with radii strongly marked; the margin 

 slightly exceeding the diameter of column. 



Tentacles. Moderately numerous, arranged in three rows, set very close 

 to the margin of disk ; nearly equal in size, very small, short, and conical. 



Mouth. Set on a large cone. Lip very tumid, coarsely furrowed. 



Colour. 



Column. Brownish-scarlet, becoming pale towards the top, and tinged 

 with purple at the very summit. 



Disk. Pale fawn or bay, with numerous radiating lines of black, so 

 thick at the outer half of the area as to give the effect of a broad, black, 

 slightly-interrupted ring. A pair of gonidial radii, opposite, white. 



Tentacles. Pellucid white, marked at the foot with two 

 close-set, narrow bars of black, and a broad ill-defined ring of 

 dusky near the middle. The radial lines of black wind sinu- 

 ously among the tentacles, on the pale ground of the disk, with 

 a distinct and pretty effect. 



Mouth. Lip deep rich scarlet. 



Size. 



Button half an inch in height Flower three-fourths of an 



inch in diameter. tentacle 



(frtmt). 



