ACTINIAE! A. 
195 
days.” The trailing connecting-hand is flat, thin, narrow, glandular, 
and of the same texture as the polype, sometimes enlarging into small 
Papillary eminences, which, as they become enlarged, become developed 
into polypes. 
Fig, R 2 . ZoamYius socialis (Cuvier), natural size. 
Minyamnians. 
The Minyadinians seem to represent among the Zoanthairia the form 
Peculiar to the Pennatula among the Alcyonians. In the case of 
Fig. 83. Blue Minyade. Minyas cterulen (Cuvier), natural size. 
animals, the base of the body, in place of extending itself in a 
disk-like form, in order to grapple with the rock and other projections 
