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and does not form a conspicuously crenate white 



lip. 



There is no coloured star on the disk, the orange 

 hue running up around the bases of the tentacles as 

 in an Actinia. Narrow radiating ridges from every 

 tentacle meet in the centre. Indeed the resemblance 

 to an Actinia is far more close and striking in this 

 new species than in C. Smithii. The cylindrical body 

 is somewhat furrowed. 



Minute microscopical examination revealed differ- 

 ences between the two species more remarkable than 

 any above-noted. All the red parts are clothed with 

 vibratile cilia, but the tentacles, which in C. Smithii 

 we have seen to be so furnished, are here entirely 

 destitute of them. The ciliary currents flow down the 

 sides of the body, but up the conical proboscis from 

 the whole circumference of the disk, passing off out- 

 ward from the mouth. The whole tentacle is covered 

 with short motionless hairs, and not the tip only. 



The warts on the tentacles, when subjected to high 

 pressure, appear to be oval vesicles or sacs of clear 

 gelatinous fluid, in which float many yellow pigment- 

 granules, which are of a varying figure, generally 

 more or less drop-shaped, with a sinuated outline, and 

 one end drawn out. These warts appear also to be 

 the chief seats of the filiferous capsules : these are not 

 very numerous, oblong, and almost linear in form, 

 varying from ^^th to -gg^-th inch in length, and send- 

 ing forth a filament about thirty times the length of the 

 capsule ; one that I measured reached to -^nd inch. 

 Those of the convoluted ovaries agreed in all respects 

 with these. 



