103 ACTING, Class VL 



GENUS XXIV. ACTINIA. 



Body wrinkled, affixing itself to some other 



substance. 

 Aperture, one at the extremity, from which 



issue numberless tentacula. 



1. Sulcata, H3'c]ra cereus. Gm. Lin. 3867- ner, Ph. Tr. 1761. J5. 78. 



Sulcaied. j^ydra tentaculis denudatis, tab. 1. l.fg. I. A.B. 



numerosissimis, corpore Ion- Ellis Zooph. 2. 

 gitudinaliter sulcato. Gcert- 



Ac. with a body marked with trifurcated sulci ; 

 and summit surrounded with long; slender ten- 

 taenia, from 120 to 200 in number; color of 

 the body pale chesnut ; of the tentacula a sea- 

 green, varied with purple. 

 , Inhabits the rocks of the Coimish and Angle- 

 sey seas. 



2. Pedun- Hydra Bellls. Gm. Zm. 3868. pore verrucuso. Ibid, Jig. 2. 



CULATA. Hydra calvciflora, tentaculis A. B. C. 



Stalked. ^ .,./ . . ^„. ^ , 



retracliubus variegatis cor- IlUls Zoopn. 2. 



Ac. with a long cylindric stalk, expanding at 

 top, and tuberculated. The tentacula disposed 



