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papillae, small and dis- 

 tant below; large, 

 dense and branched 

 above. Fragments of 

 stone and shell adher- 

 ing to these papillae, 

 clothe the column in an 

 almost continuous coat. 

 The disk is chocolate- 

 brown, the tentacles 

 articulated black and 

 white, or buff and green, 

 and the stem dark green. 



There is another common anemone which is opposite to 

 the Oulactis in its tastes. It occurs at a higher zone than 

 its fellow and choses dark corners or the under sides of 

 rocks; the stem is smooth and unclothed. Compared by its 

 sponser to a poppy, Paractis papavcr 1 (fig. 35) might have 



Fig. 34. Oulactis muscosa, a sea anemone 

 from the ocean reef, in exposed positions, 

 natural size. 



Fig. 35. Paractis jpapaver, the sea-waratah, from sheltered positions on 

 the ocean reef. 



been more aptly likened to a Waratah. For it is a uniform 

 bright crimson except a peripheral row of blue beads. 



1 Dana, U.S. Expl. Exped., vii, 1846, Zoophytes, p. 143, pi. iv, fig. 29. 

 Actinia tenebrosa, Farquhar, Journ. Linn. Soc, xxvii, 1898, p. 535, from 

 New Zealand, seems identical. 



