A history of the British sea-anemones and corals . all. i. dijiiata. Gosse, Ann. Nat. Hist. Ser. 3, i. 417. GENERAL DESCRIPTION. Form. Base. Adheringto shells, often exceeding the column; outline undulate. Column. Cylindrical, about as high as wide, sometimes dilated andoverarching above. Margin smooth, parapeted. Surface studded withlarge warts, having a tendency to form transverse rows, but with noperpendicular arrangement. A row of larger warts is usually found onthe upper part, which, when the tentacles are withdrawn, form a tuber-culated margin to the aperture. (J. A.) Disk. Fl
A history of the British sea-anemones and corals . all. i. dijiiata. Gosse, Ann. Nat. Hist. Ser. 3, i. 417. GENERAL DESCRIPTION. Form. Base. Adheringto shells, often exceeding the column; outline undulate. Column. Cylindrical, about as high as wide, sometimes dilated andoverarching above. Margin smooth, parapeted. Surface studded withlarge warts, having a tendency to form transverse rows, but with noperpendicular arrangement. A row of larger warts is usually found onthe upper part, which, when the tentacles are withdrawn, form a tuber-culated margin to the aperture. (J. A.) Disk. Flat, often partly everted and overarching. Radii stronglymarked. Tentacles. Numerous, in three or four rows, stoutly conical, bluntlypointed, the first row largest, diminishing to the outmost, which are papil-laiy : carried arching outwards. Mouth. Throat evertile, strongly ribbed. Colour. Column. Scarlet-orange, with paler warts. Disk. Dull red. Tentacles. Dull red, unhanded, a little deeper towards the tip. Mouth. Ribs of throat • AMTHLMUM A NTH FA OF RE US THE MARIGOLD WARTLET. 207 Size. Column one and a half inch high, and the same wide. Expanse abouttwo inches. Localitt. Coast of Northumberland and Cornwall. Deep water. The name by which I have distinguished this genus isgiven as a tribute to the skill and acumen of Mr. ThomasPridgin Teale, of Leeds, who published an elaborate andexcellent Memoir on the anatomy of the following English appellation is sufficiently obvious. The specificterm digitata, fingered, doubtless alludes to the thickconical form and dull reddish hue of the tentacles, in whichthe Danish zoologist saw a resemblance to fingers,—thoseof a ploughman or a scullery-maid, surely ! I distinguish this species from crassicornis on the autho-rity of Mr. Joshua Alder, of Newcastle, who first mentionedit as British, in his Catalogue of the Zoophytes of thatcoast. The same gentleman has kindly favoured me withseveral drawings of the
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