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The Natural Hiftoryof JAMAICA. 
alfo is an Articulation of Balls on the Shell fet in double Rows from the 
Apex to the Bafe or Mouth, and Seckers or Cavities on the lower End of 
the Prickles, on which they move, as ifthey were Legs, into and out of the 
Water. Their Mouth is made up of triangular Teeth, very long, meeting in 
a common Centre. It is all cover’d over with a thin purple deep co- 
lour’d or reddifh brown Membrane, which is fo tender as not to hold 
the Spikes long afier che Animal is dead. ‘The Prickles of this Sea 
Echinus are very rough and counted poytonous. 
I found them on the Reels by Gan-Key, or, Cayos off of Port Royal 
Ha:bour in great Numbers. 
Tub. 243 fhews this Echivas in feveral Pofitions, with and without its 
Prickles, as alfo its five ‘Teeth, 
Il}. Echinus marinus, minor, rotundus, elatus, aculeis gracitioribus, a/peris, 
longtortbus, nigricantibws, donatus. Tab. 244. fig. 1, 2, 3. 
This feems to be the fame, only in all its Parts lefs, whether the 
young ones of the former, is to me doubtful. 
I had it inthe fame Places. 
IV. Echinus marinus medie magnitudinis, rotundus, elatus, aculeis longto« 
ribus, crafficribus, a/peris, obtufis, Jabrubris, donatus. Lab. 244. ig. 4, 5,6, 7» 
‘This is of about an Inch in Diameter round, raifed, befet with Knobs in 
Rows or serées’s as the others of this Kind. The Knobs or Balls have 
near twelve blunt Acaled or Spikes each an Inch long, and between them 
are fmaller flat fharp Prickles. 
I found them of feveral Magnitudes with the former. 
V. Echinus noftras Spatagus. Pet. Mem, cur. ann. 1709. p. 4. No. 18. Tab. 
242. Fig. 3,4, 5. Echinus minor angulofus, ex utraque parte compref[us. Seas 
Kyg. Left. Hilt. Anim. Angl. app. p.28. Tabor. Fig. 33. Echtxus Spa- 
tacws, Rond. pe 580. Gall. p. 416. Echinus fulcatus striis marmoreis ditatus. 
Rumph. Thef. anim, p. 3. Tab. xiv. No.1. Et Echinas jalcatus, albus, fed pa= 
ruimctnertcet colorts. ej. tb. No. 2. | 
_ [found thefe Echint Marini in Sfamaica cover’d with very fmall Prickles 
like Silk or Down, and could not upon comparing them, find any Dif- 
ference between them, and thofe thrown up upon the Coafts of Eagland, 
Wales and Scotland. 
VI. Echinus marinus, major compreffus, albidus, aculeis minoribus, brevibus 
CF qutnque radits, fupina parte, foliorum rofe tnftar, donatus. Tab. 242. Fig, 
6,7; es 2. 10, 11. Anz Echinus falcatus primus Rumph. Thef. an p. 2. Tab. 
xiv. be. © 
This is four Inches in diameter, flat, not more than an Inch high, 
hollow on the under Side, and convex on the upper, where are Refem- 
blances of five Leaves as it were rifing fromthe dpex, and growing 
broader towards their round Circumference made up of Rows of {mall 
Holes, It hath reddifh or purplifh Hairs or Prickles all over it, ariang 
trom the Studs or fmall Knobs, as others of this Kind. 
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I found it thrown on the Shores of the Iland of faumaica. 
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