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A.XTHOZOA ASTEROIDA. 



bone is roundish, and small at the ends, of a horny nature, inclining 

 to leather." Specimens recent from the sea " are of a fine violet co- 

 lour ; but when we receive them, some are yellow, others white." 

 Ellis. The claims of this species to be considered a British native 

 are as doubtful as those of the preceding. 



Fig. 36. 



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The GoRGONiA Flabellum, Lin. (Fig 3G.) has been admitted 

 into the British Fauna on very insufficient evidence. Dr. Borlasse 

 tells us that, " the Flabellum veneris has been found on the shores of 

 Mount's Bay after a storm, but whether from a wrecked vessel, or 

 torn off by the violence of the waves from some rock in the Bay, is 

 not to be asserted positively," (Cornw. 238.) "Most probably," 

 says Mr. Couch, commenting on the passage, " it was foreign, for I 

 have not heard of another specimen having been taken, and this was 



