A history of the British sea-anemones and corals . m — < *? ao < CO LJ < o Cr < •_ C _, o <-I ?*Jtii St THE GEM PIMPLET. 191 margin like serried teeth. In contraction the surface is thrown into trans-verse wrinkles, which of course pass between, and not across, the warts, andthu3 a latticed or decussate appearance is communicated;—as if each wartwere the centre of a little square. Disk. Flat or slightly concave ; the outline circular and plane, a littleoverlapping. Gonidial radii strongly developed. Tentacles. In four rows, containing 6, 6, 12, 24 = 48; corresponding tothe lines
A history of the British sea-anemones and corals . m — < *? ao < CO LJ < o Cr < •_ C _, o <-I ?*Jtii St THE GEM PIMPLET. 191 margin like serried teeth. In contraction the surface is thrown into trans-verse wrinkles, which of course pass between, and not across, the warts, andthu3 a latticed or decussate appearance is communicated;—as if each wartwere the centre of a little square. Disk. Flat or slightly concave ; the outline circular and plane, a littleoverlapping. Gonidial radii strongly developed. Tentacles. In four rows, containing 6, 6, 12, 24 = 48; corresponding tothe lines of warts. They are sub-marginal, thick, moderately long, conical,obtuse; decreasing in size from the first row outwards ; and are generallycarried arching over the margin, or bent into a double curve, like thebranches of a candlestick : often, however, they assume a clumsy, thicksetform, swollen in the middle (see fig. 3). Mouth. Raised on a blunt cone. Lip furrowed. Gonidial tuberclesprominent. Colour. Column. Rose-pink, varying in br
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