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MOLLUSKS: ACEPHALS. 



worms. The common kinds are about a foot long, but 

 one kind is three feet in length. They bore into the 

 timber of ships and ^wharves. 



Fig. 452. Common Clam. Re- 

 duced. Coast of New England. 



Fig. 453. Pandora. 



Fig. 454. Gastrochsena. 

 Galway. 



Fig. 455. Watering-pot Shell, 

 reduced. 



Much 



Fig. 456. Pholas. Reduced. 

 * India. 



Fig. 457. Pholas. New 

 England and eastward. 



Fig. 458. Tunicate. 



TUNICATES. 





 These are mollusks which have no 



shell, but are covered with a tough 

 tunic, or skin. Sometimes they grow 

 in clusters, attached by a stem to sea- 

 weed, rocks, or floating timber. They 

 vary from the size of a pea to an 

 inch or more in diameter. They 

 are sometimes called Ascidians, from 

 a word which means a leather bag. 



