64: SVEK LOVEN, ON THE ECHINOIBEA DESCRIBED Bl LINN.EUS. 



iu 1817 bad recognised the species, but preferred tho name 

 of Spliiuia given b v O. F. Mullep.. Under tbis name it was 

 distino-nigbed bv Edw. Forbes, wlio believed it to iubabit also 

 tlie Mediterranean. Louis Agassiz recognised in it tbe true 

 E. esciilentiis L., adding that tbe ]\Iediterranean species com- 

 moulv knoAvn nuder tbat name is not found in more uortbern 

 scas^). Bnt it was only after tbat DiiBEN and Koren bad re- 

 stored tbe Linnean name tbat tbis was universally adopted. 

 Lamarck-) overlooked tbe determination of Linn.eus and, 

 according to Forbes and Aga.ssiz, described tbe species as 

 E. crlobiformis Lamck. Blaixville^) not onlv described it 

 anew as E. viobiceus Bly. and E. anrantiacus Bly., but trans- 

 ferred, as did also Desmoulins*), tbe triYial name: esculentus, 

 to tbe ]\Iediterranean Spbccrecbiniis granularis Lamck. 



Echimis esculentus L. 



LisTEU, Augl., p. 169, t. 3, f. 18, orig.. 1678. — Ii'. Appen- 

 dix, cd. alt., p. 27, 1685. — Schyxvoet in Eumph. Amb. Rar. p. 31, 

 \. 13, f. A, B, C, orig.. 1705. — Linn^as, Fn. Suec. ed. 1, p. 369, 

 11. 1289. 1746. — Ip. It. Scan. p. 327. 1751. — Seb.\, The?. III, 

 p. 26, t. 12. f. 8. 9, orig., 1758. 



1758. Ecbinus esculentus L. S. N. ed. 10, p. 663. 



. » » 1761. Fn. Suec. ed. 2, p. 513, 



n. 2116. 

 » » » 1764. M. L. r. p. 705. 



» » » 1767. S. X. ed. 12, p. 1102. 



» » s 1777. Pennant, Brit. Zool. ed. 4, 



IV, p. 57, t. 34, cl. VI, f. 74. 

 » > » 1828. Fleming, Brit. An., p. 478. 



» » » 1844. DiiBEN et Koken, K. Sv. Vet. 



Akad. Handl. d. 264. 

 » »2 1846. Agass. et Des. Cat. R., p. 61. 



» » » 1848. Gray, List Brit. Rad. p. 3. 



> » > 1856. LuTKEN, Aid. Aledd. Nh. 



Foren., p. 92. 

 » » » 1871. Il), ib., p. 305. 



') Monogr. d'Echinodermes, I, Préface. p. III, IV. 1841. 

 ^) Svstéme an. s. vert., p. ;54G, 1801, and Hist. an. s. vert. III, p. 43, 1816. 

 ') Diet. se. nat., XXXVII, p. 85, 1825: ib. LX. p. i'09. 1830; Actinol., 

 p. 228, 1834. 



♦) Etudes, p. 287. 1837. 



