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The Natural Hiflory of JAM AIC A. 
Gaap Sly: 
Of Multivalves. 
I, Oucha anatifera margine muricata, List. Hift. Conchyl. Tab. 436. 
N°: 282. Telling pedate. Bon. p95. N° 2. Mu. Kirch. p. 439. 
Nv: "2 
This is found plentifully fticking to Ships, Timber, S4rgsfe or Gulf 
Weed, or any thing floating in the Seas adjoining to Jamasca. I have 
nothing to add either relating to it, or its Synonymous Names, to what 
I have faid now and p. 32- of the Firft Volume of this Hiftery. 
Il. Balanus major, angusius, purpurafcens, capitis ape tara valde patente, 
Lift, Hist. Conchyl. Tab. 443. No. 285. An Balanus wajufculus ventrecofior 
capitis apertura anguftiore, Ej.ib. 286% Balanorum tefta, Bon. Clafs.2. Nos 
15. p.92. Mu/. Kircher. p. 436. No. 15. 
Several of thefe Shells grow together {ticking to the Sides of Ships, 
Shells, and other Subftances in the Sea, with a ffac Bottom. From 
thefe Bafes proceed two, three, four or five corner’d roundifh Shells of 
about an Inchin Diameter, which feem to be made up of many ftri- 
ated purplifh Lamina, beginning broad at the Bafe, and ending pyrami« 
dally. The Inteftices of thefe Plates are fill’d up by other Lamine not 
{triated, and the infide is all one Shell fomething in Colour and Subftance 
like that of the infide of an Oyfter. This Hole at Top hath within ira 
Shell-fith having Cirrhz like the Concha anatifera\odg’d in a Mouth fill’d 
with four large f{triated pyramidal Shells and two leffer, each abour an 
Inch long, meeting and making a common Roflram like the Teeth of the 
Echini lodg’d in and filling up the Cavity at the opening or Yop. This 
Shell hath great Variety of Shapes, and is fometimes an Inch wide at Top, 
and more bellied out at Bottom, and of various Figures according to the 
Shells it fticks to. 
{ found it in the Seas adjoining to Famaica. They occafion great 
Inconvenience to Ships failing in thefe Seas, fticking to thofe Parts of the 
Ship which are under Water, and retarding its Motion unlefs {crub’d off, 
