I. Diviston, 
CRINOIDEA ARTICULATA. 
Character of the Division. 
THe joints resting on the first, or superior columnar joint, and forming the 
cup containing the viscera, articulate by liplike and transverse processes, having 
a minute perforation. 
Observation. 
The name of the division ArricuLaTa, is used in allusion to the articu- 
lating insertion of the joints forming the cup containing the viscera. 
I. GENUS APIOCRINITES. 
PEAR-LIKE LILY-SHAPED ANIMAL. , 
Generic Character. 
An animal with a column gradually enlarging at the apex, composed of 
numerous joints, of which the superior is marked by five diverging ridges 
dividing the surface into as many equal portions, sustaining the pelvis, formed 
of five sub-cuneiform joints, supporting others of a figure nearly similar, 
from which proceed the arms and tentaculated fingers 5 alas of simple joints, 
haying the figure of a horse shoe. 
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