A history of the British sea-anemones and corals . THE SAND PINTLET. Hcdcampa VII. Figs. 9, 10. Specific Character. Tentacles twelve, in one row, as long as the diameterof the column, banded. Actinia chrysanthellum. Peach, in Johnstons Brit. Zooph. Ed. 2, i. 220 ; pi. xxxvii. figs. 10—15. Cocks,Rep. Cornw. Soc. 1851, 6; pi. i. figs. 20, 21. Peachia (?) chrysanthellum. Gosse, Linn. Trans, xxi. 271; Man. Mar. Zool. i. 31. Hcdcampa chrysanthellum. Ibid. Annals N. H. Ser. 3. i. 418. GENERAL DESCRIPTION. Form. Column. Cylindrical, lengthened, worm-like (extending to ten times i
A history of the British sea-anemones and corals . THE SAND PINTLET. Hcdcampa VII. Figs. 9, 10. Specific Character. Tentacles twelve, in one row, as long as the diameterof the column, banded. Actinia chrysanthellum. Peach, in Johnstons Brit. Zooph. Ed. 2, i. 220 ; pi. xxxvii. figs. 10—15. Cocks,Rep. Cornw. Soc. 1851, 6; pi. i. figs. 20, 21. Peachia (?) chrysanthellum. Gosse, Linn. Trans, xxi. 271; Man. Mar. Zool. i. 31. Hcdcampa chrysanthellum. Ibid. Annals N. H. Ser. 3. i. 418. GENERAL DESCRIPTION. Form. Column. Cylindrical, lengthened, worm-like (extending to ten times itsdiameter or more); slightly invected; terminating below in a roundedextremity, which is generally distended into a bladder-like form andtranslucent thinness, and is incapable of being retracted; merging aboveinto the tentacles without a parapet. Surface studded with excessivelynumerous, minute, sucking warts. Disk. Plane. Radii twelve, halp-disk of h. (magnified). Tentacles. Twelve, strictly marginal, set in a single row, their feet incontact. Nearly cylindrical, with rounded extremities, about as long asthe general diameter of the column, usually carried pointing upwards andoutwards, slightly arched; perfectly retractile by the ordinary process ofinversion. 248 ilyantiiid^e. Mouth. A line without distinct lip ; not elevated on a cone. Furrowedwithin. Colour. Column. Drab or dirty white ; the septa distinct as white longitudinallines; the swollen bladder-like extremity translucent, and almost colour-less, except for the septa. Disk. Marked with a pretty star-like pattern, consisting of a pale bluearea, inclosed in a pale line, and surrounded by twelve triangular rays of adark brown hue; each triangle surmounted by a pale VV-like figure,which incloses a dark brown area, according to the accompanying pattern. Tentacles. Pellucid brown, the front crossed by six semi-rings of opaquewhite, of which the se
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