THE GRASS-SEA. 1752. 115 



prefTed, fomewhat pointed, and difficult to be 

 diftinguifhed when dead: the antenna are 

 fhorter than the head : the mouth has no teeth, 

 and has a piloie margin below the beak : the 

 throat is fmall, almofl round : the tentacula 

 are upwards, not far from the top of the 

 beak ; they are oblong, foliaceous, ihorter 

 than the finSj fomewhat broader before, withr 

 a deflected hairy margin, and a carnofe cone 

 in the middle ; they likewife ferve to grafp 

 the fea-weed. The animal has on each fide 

 two fins at equal diftances ; they are foliaceous, 

 oblong, fomewhat broader before, curled, 

 with briftly or lacerated edges, and are placed 

 on the rough margin of the back : the belly is 

 in the middle of the bodyj narrow, oblong. 

 The parts of fructification of the fea-weed, 

 which it eats, Were vifible in it. The tail is 

 perpendicular, foliaceous, almoft round, broad- 

 er, but fhorter than the appendages, and ci- 

 liated. This animal moves very ilowly in the 

 water 3 , by bending its extremities. 



Cancer, pelagicus, brachiperus, manuum arti- 

 culis omnibus dentatis, extimo heptagono. The 

 pinchers of the chely bend out very little, are 



a I fhould perhaps have called the tentacula, hands, and 

 the fins, tout feet, 



I 2 ftreaked, 



