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wards into an infinite number of flender branches of various forms, lengths, 



which defcend commonly about three or four feet in the water. All 

 juices of this creature abound with acrid particles. 



lizes, 



and 

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PHYLLIDOCE 1. Labris cceruleis. Tab. 46. f. 1. 



The Sally-Man. 



This infect, though evidently of this clafs, is more firm and opake than either 

 of the foregoing j and confifts of an oblong cartilaginous flat body f! rly radiated 

 from the center, and interacted with fmall concentric lines: but this is fur- 

 nilhed with two thin, flefhy or femigelaiinous lips, b b, that- extend themfelves 

 by fhort vermiform appendixes over the under furface of the cartilaginous part. It 

 is alfo fupplied with. a femi-elliptical, dry, tranfparent membrane E, which ftands 

 perpendicularly on the furface of the more firm part A, in the direction of the 

 line D D, furnifhing it with a pair of conftant {landing fails which anfwer up- 

 on all occaiions ; for when this body is to move in any particular direction, fup- 



1, of the perpendicular men'brane, which 

 arches in the direction of the line AD — 1, fills and pufhes the body forwr.tls, 

 while the other part floats in the wind. But when the wind changes, and 



pofe towards X, the part A y DD 



the 



body is to move towards Z, the other part anfwer s in the fame manner, and all 

 the motions are performed by the fame mechanifm. It is furnifhed with a rreat 



number of flender tentacula y 



each about half an inch in length, 



which rife very 



thick from the margin of the cartilage underneath ; and it feems to have ^n opening 

 or mouth in the center of the bafe. 



LERNE A 1 . Subfufca major, vahis bints major ibus per longkudlnem dorji 



produBis. 



The larger dark Lemea or Sea-S 



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This infect is pretty frequent in the America?! feas, but lives generally 



fhore where it feeds very ravenoufly on all the fmalier weed 

 creature, it emits a confiderable quantity of a vifcid purple 1 

 and colours the water about it fo much that it can 



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fcarccly be feen for fome time 

 after, by which means it is generally enabled to make its efcape in times of danger. 

 This liquor is difcharged from a large gland fituated deep bet 

 the back 



it feeds, 

 I have 



by the means of which it performs all its floating motion 



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Ives of 

 while 



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it 



creeps 



like a fn 



upon its bellj 



athered a fmall quantity of the difcharges of 



linen handkerchief with it : 



It 



pt to change either with acrids 



very beautiful dark purpl 



d flained 

 which 



is 



emarkable that the water grows alway 



fter each 



but it is eafily wafhed ou 

 » clear iii a few minutes ; 

 nd yet the ftained handkerchief 

 ed the colour until warned, which was not done For many weeks afteri W 

 the creature is put into frefh water, it contracts, and dies foon after. 



difcharee. though confined in a fmall veflel 



ACTINIA 1. Subfufca mollis, fundo mufculofo. 



The Sea-Pudding. 



This .infect is of the fame confidence with the fnail, and of a dark dirty colour: 

 it is foft and glutinous, of a cylindric form, fhort, and furnifhed with a great number 

 of fmall flabby tentacular difpofed in a double row round the margin, at one end ; 



but the oppofite extremity is rug 



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mufcular and yielding, like the belly of the 



fea- fnail or Lemea. I have feen oniy one of this fort> it was about an inch and 



a half each way, but I am informed they grow very large fometimes. 



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