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tentacula are greenish. It is thought that it fixes itself in 
the mud by means of the attenuated extremity; hence it 
was named [/wanthos—mud-flower. The only specimens I 
have seen of this rare creature were in the possession of 
Major Martin, of Ardrossan, who had procured them from 
Cumbraes, where they had been brought up from the deep 
by the fishermen’s long lines. 
Famitry LUCERNIADA. 
“* God visible, invisible who raignes, 
Soule of all soules, whose light each light directs, 
All first did freely make, and still maintains ; 
The greatest rules, the meanest not neglects ; 
Fore-knowes the end of all that He ordaines ; 
His will each cause, each cause breeds fit effects ; 
Who did make all, all thus could only leade, 
None could make all, but who was never made.” 
Alexander, Earl of Stirling. 1600. 
Genus XXXIV. LUCERNARIA, Miller. 
Gen. Char. Body narrow towards the adhering extremity, ex- 
panding into an oval disc, which is divided into lobes bearing 
tentacula.—Dr. Fleming. 
1. Lucernaria FrascicuLaRis, Dr. J. Meming. (Plate 
XIV. fig. 48.) 
