A history of the British sea-anemones and corals . -often B. REGIA. ANIMAL. Form. Column. Cylindrical, extensile, smooth, or somewhat invected. Disk. Protrusile, in the form of a high truncate cone, on the summitof which is the mouth, without any thickened or furrowed lip. No traceof gonidial radii, tubercles, or grooves. ? Tentacles. About fifty in number, large, conical, obtusely-pointed, with-out terminal knobs : their walls arc translucent, and studded with opaquetransversely-oblong warts, which become confluent towards the tip. Colour. Column and Dish Vivid scarlet in adults, ora
A history of the British sea-anemones and corals . -often B. REGIA. ANIMAL. Form. Column. Cylindrical, extensile, smooth, or somewhat invected. Disk. Protrusile, in the form of a high truncate cone, on the summitof which is the mouth, without any thickened or furrowed lip. No traceof gonidial radii, tubercles, or grooves. ? Tentacles. About fifty in number, large, conical, obtusely-pointed, with-out terminal knobs : their walls arc translucent, and studded with opaquetransversely-oblong warts, which become confluent towards the tip. Colour. Column and Dish Vivid scarlet in adults, orange in young individuals,opaque. Tentacles. Gamboge yellow : the hue residing only in the warts. Size. Diameter of corallum one-fourth of an inch at margin, and occasionallytwice as much at base; height from one-sixth to one-fourth. The animalin full expansion may reach one-third of an inch in diameter, and one-halfin height. coast of North Devon : on rocks at extreme low water. This showy little Coral, interesting not merely for itsbeauty while ali
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