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Title: A history of the British sea-anemones and corals
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: Gosse, Philip Henry, 1810-1888
Subjects: Sea anemones -- Great Britain Corals -- Great Britain Ctenophora -- Great Britain Cnidaria -- Great Britain
Publisher: London : Van Voorst
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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ay be considered asthe normal colouring, I appropriate this name, which was applied by myfriend Dr. T. Strethill Wright, to the species, which he described,believing it to be new. (Plate ii. fig. 4.)* /3. Venustoides. Disk rich orange. Tentacles opaque yellowish-white orpure white, marked, however, with the two characteristic black bars; theouter row showing traces, more or less conspicuous, of the orange lining.This variety, from Ilfracombe and Torquay, has much prima-facie re-semblance to 8. renusta ; but the specific marks of the tentacles, the strongcremation of the mouth, and the well-defined and concentrically striateradii are good signs of distinction. (Plate ii. fig. 3.) * Sly friend Mr. F. H. West has received a specimen from the vicinityof Boulogne, with the disk more variegated than is usual with our specimens,and which had this peculiarity, that one-half of the disk was flushed with adslicate rose-pink, and the opposite half with an equally lovely shadeof green. Il ATE I 1
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I. 8. SACARTIA NIVEA .2-3.4. S. MINIATA 5 S. TROGLODYTES6. S. PARASITICA . W DItfTi. 7. S IOTHYSTOMA9. 10. S. ORNATA THE SCAELET-FRINGED ANEMONE. 43 y. Iioseoidcs. Column orange-brown; disk pale yellowish-grey; ten-tacles rose-coloured, with the proper markings ; and the outer row eitherwholly or partially scarlet-cored. Dartmouth, Plymouth. This is exceed-ing!) like S. rosea. (See the article on that species.) 5. Niveoides* Column drab-olive. All the tentacles opaque white, exceptfive groups sub-symmetrically arranged, each group comprising a fewtentacles of a pale orange-buff hue. A single specimen in the possessionof Mr. G. H. King, of Torquay, obtained by him in the vicinity. e. Coccinea. Column deep pellucid crimson : tentacles crimson. Thisapproaches a common state of A. mcscmlryanthcmum in its appearance andcolouring : its suckers, however, will in a moment distinguish it on exa-mination, and the usual row of orange-cored tentacles determines its truecharacter. (Plate ii. fig.

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