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I. SPECIES. ACTINOCRINITES TRIACONTA DACTYLUS. 
THIRTY-FINGERED, RADIATED, LILY-SHAPED ANIMAL. 
Specific Character. 
A Crinoidal animal, with a round column formed of many joints, on whose 
summit is placed a pelvis of three plates supporting five hexagonal and 
one pentagonal costal plate, on which the second costals, intercostals, and 
scapule, in series adhere, the latter sending off five arms, having each two hands 
provided with three fingers. 
Column sending off at irregular distances auxiliary side arms, and terminat- 
ing at the base in a bundle of fibrous elongations resembling roots. 
Reference and Synonymes. 
Rock Piant.—Beaumont in Philosophical Transactions, 1676. 
Lister in Phil. Trans. 1674, No. 100, who considers the superior part 
of this animal as the root of Entrochi. 
Nave Encrinite.—Parxinson’s Organic Remains, Vou. 1. Pu. xvir 
fig. 3. where the draughtsman has very correctly represented the pentagonal 
costal plate, and the subsequent arrangement of the other series on it. 
G, CumBERLAND, in Phil. Trans. Vou. v. Pu, 1. fig. 1. 4.5. 
Locality. 
In Mountain Limestone at the Villages Broughton and Stokes in Craven, 
Yorkshire (Lister, 1674.) Mountain Lime formation of the Mendip Hills, 
(Beaumont), and the Black Rock, near Bristol, where the two finest specimens 
of this species in my collection were iound by Mr, James BeNTOoN, an intelli- 
