A history of the British sea-anemones and corals . Tentacles. Numerous (44, according to Forbess figure), long (more thanhalf as long as the body), slender, filiform, of nearly equal thicknessthroughout (apparently set in two or three rows). Colour. Column. Pink, with regular distant longitudinal white Greenish, with a dark line down the middle of each ; verynearly resembling those of Rapps A ct. filiformis. about an inch and a half. west coast of Scotland, and the east of Ireland : deep water. This genus was instituted by the late E. Forbes, torecei
A history of the British sea-anemones and corals . Tentacles. Numerous (44, according to Forbess figure), long (more thanhalf as long as the body), slender, filiform, of nearly equal thicknessthroughout (apparently set in two or three rows). Colour. Column. Pink, with regular distant longitudinal white Greenish, with a dark line down the middle of each ; verynearly resembling those of Rapps A ct. filiformis. about an inch and a half. west coast of Scotland, and the east of Ireland : deep water. This genus was instituted by the late E. Forbes, toreceive a remarkable zoophyte, which he had dredged THE SCOTTISH PEAELET. 231 among Corbulce and other inhabitants of mud, in fourfathoms, in Loch Ryan, on the west coast of Scotland,in 1839. The name of the genus is formed from tXu?,mud, and avOos, a flower, and was originally writtenHuanthos; but, as the Greek used in science is in a Latinizedform, the correct orthography is certainly Ilyanthus. TheEnglish appellation refers to the pear-like ILYANTHUS SCOTICUS {from Forbes). When we add that a specimen, presumed to be of thisspecies, was found on the beach at Balbriggan, in Ireland,after a storm, in March, 1843, its whole known history isrecorded. ? Scoticus. S. viduata. Mitchellii. ASTRJ1ACEA. ILYANTRIDjE. THE SCARLET PEAKLET. Ilyanthus VIII. Fig. 6. Specific Character. Tentacles thick, conical, short, marked with trans-verse bands. Iluanthos Mitchellii. Gosse, Ann. N. H. Ser. 2. xii. 128. M. Edwards, Hist. Nat. des Corall. i. Mitchellii. Gosse, Man. Mar. Zool. i. 30, fig. 44; Ann. N. H Ser. 3. i. 418. GENERAL Column. Stout, somewhat pear-shaped, thickening from the summitfor about three-fourths of an inch, whence it gradually tapers to a bluntpoint, in the centre of which is a minute wrinkled disk, which the animaldoes not appear to use as an adhesive sucker. * Disk. Very protrusile; not so wide as the body: radii distinct.
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