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COMMON SUN-STAR. 

 Solaster papposa. Linnaeus. 



Specific character. — Rays twelve to fifteen, one-half as long as the breadth of 

 the disk ; fasciculi of spines circular ; spines long, slender. 



Asterias papposa, Linn. 1089. Muller, Zool. Dan. Prod. 2832. La- 



marck, Anim. sans Vert. II. p. 559 ; 2 Edit. III. p. 

 246. Fleming, Brit. An. p. 487. Johnston, Mag. 

 Nat. Hist. IX. p. 475, f. G9; Encyc. Meth. pi. cvii. 

 f. 4, 5. 



Stella dodecactis, Link, tab. xvii. No. 28 ; tab. xxii. No. 52. 



Ast-erias Mianthoules, Pennant, Brit. Zool. IV. p. 66, No. 72. 



Stellonia papjwsa, Agassiz, Prod. 



Solaster pajywsa, Forbes, Wern. Mem. VIII. p. 121. 



This Starfish is one of the commonest, and, at the same 

 time, of the handsomest of all the British species. The 



