LUCERNAIUA. 



Z. HELIANTHOIDA. 



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and also expanded, circular, or striated at the pleasure of the animal ; 

 the inside with numerous white filaments." — " The animal contracts 

 itself into various shapes. It moves the tentacula very quickly, espe- 

 cially if muddy water is poured upon it. Although I have kept it 

 alive several days, I have never observed it in an upright position. 

 It in general hangs downwards, as expressed in the figure, sometimes, 



however, it is nearly horizontal." Fleming. " When at rest, it 



assumes very much the form of a common drinking-glass, and is ex- 

 ceedingly conspicuous from its beautiful rose tint." Templeton. 



2. L. AURICULA, body sessile, cMinpanulate ; tufts of tentacula 

 8, equidistant, with a marginal tubercle between each pair. G. 



Montao-u.* 



Fig. 35. 



Holothuria lagenam referens tentaculis octonis fasciculatis, Mull. Zool. 



Dan. prod. 232, no. 2812 Lucemaria auricula, Fabric. Faun. Groenl. 



341. Tvrt. Gmel. iv. 121. Montagum Lin. Trans, ix. 113, pi. 7, fig. 5. 

 Penn. Brit. Zool. iv. 1 10. Flem. Brit. Anim. 499. Johnston in Mag. 

 Nat. Hist. V. 44, fig. 29 ; and in Trans. Newc. Soc. ii. 248. Templeton 



in Mag. Nat. Hist. ix. 304. L. octoradiata. Lam. Anim- s. Vert. ii. 



474. L. auricule, Lamour. in Mem. du Mus. ii. 471. 



llab. Coast of Devonshire, Montagu. Adheres to Fuci, near low- 

 water-mark, on different parts of the coast, Fleming. " Found ad- 

 hering to the Fuci on the shore at Ballycastle, and in the cave near 



* George Montagu, Esq. F. L. S. the autlior of " Testacea Britannica," and 

 of a much valued Ornithological Dictionary. His contributions to the history 

 of invertebrate animals were also numerous, and always interesting : the best, 

 perhaps, is his Essay on Sponges in the Wernerian Memoirs. He is often styled 

 Colonel Montagu, probably being the commander of some volunteer corps. He 

 died at Knowle House, his residence, near Kingsbridgc, Devonshire, on June 1 9, 

 1815, in the 76th year of his age, from tetanus produced by a wound in his foot 

 from a nail. Annals of Pliilosophy, vi. p. 77. His collections are now in the 

 British Museum. F'or an estimate of his rliaracter sec Fleming's Brit. Animals, 

 Pref. p. X. 



