ASTRJEACEA. SAGARTIADJZ. 



THE EYED ANEMONE. 



Sagartia coccinea. 

 Plate V. Jig. 4 : XII. Jig. 4 (magnified). 



Specific Character. Body rufous, with white lines ; tentacles pellucid 

 ringed with white, marked at the foot with a black bar, and two triangula 

 black spots below it. A 



Actinia coccinea. Muller, Zool. Dan. Prod.; 231, No. 2792. Zool. 



Dan. ii. 30 ; pi. lxiii. figs. 1 — 3. Johnston, Brit. 



Zooph. 2d Ed. p. 215. 

 Sagartia' coccinea. Gosse, Annals N. H. Ser. 3. vol. i. p. 416. 



GENERAL DESCRIPTION. 

 Form. 



Base. Adherent to shells, in deep water : little exceeding the column. 

 Outline irregularly cut and lobed. 



Column. Smooth, without visible suckers. Substance pulpy. Form 

 cylindrical; the height, when exten .led, twice the diameter; the margin 

 tentaculate. 



Disk. Flat; the margin entire. Outline circular, scarcely exceeding 

 the diameter of column. Radii distinct, smooth. 



Tentacles. About sixty-four (in my largest specimen), arranged in three 

 indistinct rows, of which the first and second contain each sixteen — the 

 third, which is marginal, thirty -two. The inner rows are the largest, some 

 of the outermost being minute points. Compared with the average of 

 Anemones, they are short and thick, obtusely conical, and stand nearly 

 erect. 



Mouth. Not raised on a cone. No distinct lip. 



Acontia. Protruded freely, both from column and mouth. 



Colour. 



Column. Light brownish orange, marked with many white or whitish 

 longitudinal streaks from margin to base, more numerous below. These 

 Btreaks are of varying width, but are in general equal or superior to the 

 intermediate red spaces ; their edges are irregularly jagged. They are 



