﻿HuTTON. 
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  On 
  the 
  Sea 
  Anemones 
  of 
  New 
  Zealand. 
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  Ilyanthidje. 
  

   Analysis 
  of 
  the 
  genera 
  (after 
  Gosse). 
  

   Tentacles 
  of 
  one 
  kind 
  ; 
  marginal 
  

   Column 
  thick, 
  pear-shaped. 
  

  

  Mouth 
  with 
  a 
  papillate 
  gonidial 
  tube 
  ... 
  Peachia. 
  

  

  Mouth 
  simple 
  ... 
  ... 
  Ilyanthus. 
  

  

  Column 
  slender, 
  long, 
  worm-shaped 
  

  

  Invested 
  with 
  an 
  epidermis 
  ... 
  ... 
  ... 
  Eclwardsia. 
  

  

  Without 
  an 
  epidermis 
  ... 
  Halcampa. 
  

  

  Tentacles 
  of 
  two 
  kinds 
  ; 
  marginal 
  and 
  gular. 
  

  

  Naked 
  ; 
  freely 
  swimming 
  Arachnactis. 
  

  

  Dwelling 
  in 
  a 
  membranous 
  tube 
  ; 
  sedentary 
  

  

  Column 
  inferiorly 
  perforate 
  ... 
  ... 
  Cerianthus. 
  

  

  Column 
  inferiorly 
  imperforate 
  ... 
  Saccanthus. 
  

  

  MiNYADIDJE. 
  

  

  Analysis 
  of 
  the 
  genera 
  (after 
  Milne 
  -Edwards.) 
  

   Tentacles 
  simple. 
  

  

  Column 
  smooth 
  ... 
  ... 
  Plotactis. 
  

  

  Column 
  warty 
  ... 
  ... 
  Minyas. 
  

  

  Tentacles 
  compound 
  ... 
  ... 
  ... 
  ... 
  ... 
  Nautactis. 
  

  

  Descriptions 
  of 
  the 
  Neiu 
  Zealand 
  Species. 
  

  

  Phyllactid^. 
  

  

  Tentacles 
  of 
  two 
  kinds 
  ; 
  simple 
  and 
  compound. 
  

  

  Oulactis 
  (M. 
  Edwards). 
  

  

  Column 
  with 
  warts. 
  Compound 
  tentacles 
  placed 
  round 
  the 
  margin 
  of 
  

  

  the 
  disc, 
  and 
  outside 
  the 
  simple 
  tentacles. 
  

  

  Oulactis 
  plicatiis, 
  sp. 
  nov. 
  

   Column 
  cylindrical, 
  not 
  much 
  expanded 
  at 
  the 
  base, 
  about 
  as 
  high 
  as 
  

   broad 
  ; 
  warts 
  arranged 
  vertically 
  in 
  numerous 
  (80 
  or 
  100) 
  rows. 
  Brownish 
  

   yellow, 
  with 
  the 
  warts 
  dirty 
  white. 
  Disc 
  circular, 
  concave 
  ; 
  the 
  margin, 
  

   when 
  expanded, 
  thrown 
  into 
  five 
  deep 
  folds. 
  Crimson, 
  radiately 
  streaked 
  

   with 
  yellow 
  near 
  the 
  margin. 
  The 
  simple 
  tentacles 
  are 
  conical, 
  about 
  two- 
  

   thirds 
  of 
  an 
  inch 
  in 
  length, 
  and 
  arranged 
  in 
  two 
  rows. 
  They 
  are 
  trans- 
  

   parent, 
  of 
  a 
  violet 
  or 
  greenish 
  colour, 
  and 
  often 
  with 
  opaque 
  whitish 
  

   transverse 
  bands 
  on 
  the 
  interior 
  aspect. 
  The 
  compound 
  tentacles 
  are 
  in 
  a 
  

   single 
  row, 
  and 
  about 
  two-thirds 
  the 
  length 
  of 
  the 
  simple 
  tentacles. 
  They 
  

   are 
  white, 
  and 
  multi-lobed, 
  the 
  lobes 
  being 
  subcylindrical 
  and 
  rounded 
  at 
  

   the 
  ends. 
  

  

  Height 
  about 
  2 
  J 
  in, 
  when 
  extended. 
  In 
  rock-pools 
  on 
  the 
  coast, 
  near 
  

   Dunedin* 
  

  

  