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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his was considerably smaller than Forbess, but agreedwith it in essential points. Mr. Cocks has kindly put intomy possession some notes of his specimen, which haveenabled me to add a few details to Forbess diagnosis ; andalso a coloured drawing made from the living animal,which I have copied in my Plate IX. Phellia.SANGUINEA. Aureliania. 282 GENUS II. AURELIANIA (Gosse). (Gen. nov.)Corynactis (Thompson). Base expanded, adherent. Column conico-cylindrical, low, the margin forminga thick parapet with a fosse. Surface smooth, withoutsuckers or loopholes : invested with a deciduous epi-dermis. Substance firm and coriaceous, opaque. Disk fiat, entire ; radii distinct. Tentacles in several rows, very short, knobbed; theheads more or less bilobate, and differing in form inthe different rows ; perfectly retractile. Mouth slit-like, furrowed : stomach-wall protrusile. ANALYSIS OF BRITISH SPECIES. Base greatly expanded : crimson augusta. Base not exceeding column : yellow heterocera. PI. ATI 1/
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;0R YN ACTI S V I R I Dl S I T H U i I I C A T U S ALDER I 9. 10 . ZOAN TH H I I . II . AIJRE 1. I AN I A AUGUSTA . 12. A . HETEROCERA 13. CAPNEA .SANCUINEA CA R YOPH YLLIA CEA. CA PNEA DM THE CRIMSON IMPERIAL. Aureliania augusta. (Sp. nov.)Plate IX. Fig. 11.Specific Character. Column rising from a widely expanded base : crimson. GENERAL DESCRIPTION. Form. Base. Adherent to rocks ; greatly expanded; the outline undulate. Column. A low, thick pillar, springing gradually from the broad baselike the trunk of a tree; the margin forming a thick and prominentparapet, the inner edge of which is crenate; and separated from the ten-tacles by a narrow and shallow fosse. Surface smooth, entirely investedwith a soft, woolly, firm, thin epidermis (which fell off in patchessoon after capture, and was not renewed). Substance firmly fleshy;opaque. Disk. Somewhat elliptical, entire, flat or slightly convex ; radii fme but distinct. Tentacles. In four rows, the outer row containing 42; very short,knobb

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