102 ACTINIA. Class VI. 



GENUS XXIV. ACTINIA, 



Body wrinkled, affixing itself to some other 



substance. 

 Aperture, one at the extremity, from which 



issue numberless tentacula. 



1. Sulcata. Hydra cereus. Gm. Lin. 3867- tier, Ph. Tt- 176l. p. 78. 



Sulcated, Hydra tentacu H s denudatis, tab. i. I. Jig. 1. A. B. 



numerosissimis, corpore Ion- Ellis Zooph. 2. 

 gitudinaliter sulcata. Gcert- 



Ac. with a body marked with trifurcated sulci; 

 and summit surrounded with long slender ten- 

 tacula, 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 Cornish and Angle- 

 sey seas. 



2. Pedun- Hydra Bellis. Gm. Lin. 3868. pore verrucuso. Ibid.Jig.2. 



c " L f 7 TA / Hydra calyciflora, tentaculis A. B. C. 



Stalked. .,., . . _,„. _. 7 



retraciinbus vanegatis cor- ±.lhs Zooph. 2. 



Ac. with a long cylindric stalk, expanding at 

 top, and tuberculated. The tentacula disposed 



