ASTRMACEA. ILYANTHIDjE. 



THE SCOTTISH PEARLET. 



Ilyanthus Scoticus. 



Specific Character. Tentacles slender, filiform, long; marked with a 

 dark line. 



Iluanthos Scoticus. Forbes, Ann. ST. H. Ser. 1. v. 183. pi. iii. figs. 2, 3. 

 W. Thompson, Ann. N. H. Ser. 1. xv. 322. John- 

 ston, Brit. Zooph. Ed. 2. i. 243. pi. xlv. figs. 1, 2. 

 M. Edwards, Hist. Nat. des Coralliaires, i. 284. 



Ilyanthus Scoticus. Gosse, Man. Mar. Zool. i. 30 ; Ann. N. H. Ser. 3. i. 417. 



GENERAL DESCRIPTION. 

 Form. 



Column. Pear-shaped, large above, tapering to a point at its lower 

 extremity. 



Disk. (" Mouth," Forbes ; but probably the Disk is meant.) Round, 

 and rather small. 



Tentacles. Numerous (44, according to Forbes's figure), long (more than 

 half as long as the body), slender, filiform, of nearly equal thickness 

 throughout (apparently set in two or three rows). 



Colour. 



Column. Pink, with regular distant longitudinal white stripes. 

 Tentacles. Greenish, with a dark line down the middle of each ; very 

 nearly resembling those of Rapp's Act. filiformis. 



Size. 

 Length about an inch and a half. 



Locality. 

 The west coast of Scotland, and the east of Ireland : deep water. 



This genus was instituted by the late E. Forbes, to 

 receive a " remarkable zoophyte," which he had dredged 



