. Actinologia britannica. A history of the British sea-anemones and corals ... Sea anemones; Corals; Marine animals. A STRuEA CEA. JL YA NTUID^. THE SPRAWLET. Arachnactis alhida. Specific Character. Marginal tentacles longer than the column, gular tentacles about one-fourth of the length of the column. Arachnactis alhida. Sars, Fauna Litt. Norveg. i. 28; pi. iv. tig. 1—6. Forbes aud Goodsir, Trans. Roy. Soc. Ediub. xk. 310. GENERAL DESCRIPTION. Form. Column. Shortly cylindrical [pear-shaped, E. F.], sub-globular in contraction, becoming gradually smiiller and rounded at . the inferior extremit
. Actinologia britannica. A history of the British sea-anemones and corals ... Sea anemones; Corals; Marine animals. A STRuEA CEA. JL YA NTUID^. THE SPRAWLET. Arachnactis alhida. Specific Character. Marginal tentacles longer than the column, gular tentacles about one-fourth of the length of the column. Arachnactis alhida. Sars, Fauna Litt. Norveg. i. 28; pi. iv. tig. 1—6. Forbes aud Goodsir, Trans. Roy. Soc. Ediub. xk. 310. GENERAL DESCRIPTION. Form. Column. Shortly cylindrical [pear-shaped, E. F.], sub-globular in contraction, becoming gradually smiiller and rounded at . the inferior extremity, where no orifice has been observed. Surface smooth [but with the power of adhering, at least by the inferior extremity (E. F.), which implies the existence of suckers]. Substance softly fleshy. Disk. [Undescribed.] Tentacles. Of two kinds. First series marginal, twelve to fourteen in number, filiform, tapering, very long, slender and pointed: of these eleven are about equal in length and thickness, while one or two are very much shorter and smaller, and un- %i^^^^i«*^ equal i7itcr se. Some individuals show traces of the budding forth of another tentacle. These smaller and apparently sprouting tentacles \'^ always occur at that part of the ARACHNACTIS ALBiDA. ^"'^^^ ^^^°^ Corresponds to one angle of the mouth. Second series springing immediately around the mouth-slit, eight to twelve in number [sixteen, E. , conical, pointed, scarcely one-tenth as long as those of the first series; some smaller than the rest, and apparently budding, and these correspond in position with the budding ones of the first series. Mouth. A simple slit. COLODR, Column. Pellucid whitish, displaying the dark brown stomach through its translucency [dusky white, tinged with tawny, E. F.]. Tentacles. First series whitish with dark brown tips [tawny and white, E. F.]. Second series dark brown on the front Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have
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