Identifier: historyofbritish00goss (find matches)
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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Size. Average specimens in the button state are about five-eighths of an inchin height, and the same in width of column ; the base covering an area ofnearly an inch in diameter. Such a specimen in ordinary expansion wouldspread an inch and a half from tip to tip of the tentacles. But specimensan inch and a quarter in height and width in the button are not rarelymet with. Locality. It is widely scattered over the European coasts. Where found it isgenerally common, adhering to rocks and loose stones, between tide-marks; 7
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P. H .C.DEL. IN COLOURS BY W D!CHES. I 2 SACARTIA TROCLODYTES. 4 5 S PALLIDA 3 S VIDUATA 6 S PURA 7.8 ADAMSIA PALLIATA THE SNAKE-LOCKED ANEMONE. 107 and is especially abundant on a sandy bottom in the laminarian zone, whereit appears to be nearly or quite free, since it is washed ashore by hundredsafter a gale. Variety. The only distinctly marked variety that I have noticed besides thosediversities of the general tint that I include in o. Aleurops*—the mealy-faced condition above described,—iaP. Melanop&;\ which has a broad well-defined band of deep black,crossing the disk and tentacles ; just as if a dash of ink had been struckacross the whole flower ; including in its breadth three or four tentaclesof each row on each side. The band crosses at right-angles to the line ofthe mouth ; the gonidial radii of which are white. Sagartia viduata is somewhat liable to be confoundedwith troglodytes; and some varieties of the latter approachit very nearly, especially when closed. But an

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