294 THE MEDALS OF CREATION. Cuap. VIII. 
in the British Museum,* exposed on the surface of the stone 
in as perfect a state as if just dredged up from the bottom 
of the sea. The pentacrinites are for the most part entire ; 
the peduncle being fixed, and the column extending upwards 
in gentle undulations, and supporting the receptacle, from 
Lien. 94, ACTINOCRINITES, OR NAVE ENCRINITES. 
Fig. 1.—Actinocrinus ParKInsoni. (Org. Rem. ii. pl. xvii. Pict. 
Atlas, pl. li.) ’ 
2.—Section of an Acrinocrinus. (WMiller’s Crinoidee, pl. ii.) 
a. Proboscideal protrusion of the plate and integument. 
b. Sections of the folded or closed arms. 
3.—Arms ofa Pentacrinite, on Lias-shale ; Lyme Regis. 
which the arms are gracefully outspread in various attitudes. 
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The structure of the receptacle, and of the arms, and the 
extreme delicacy of the finer tentacula made up of countless — 
_ * This species was named and figured by M. Kénig in his “ cones 
Fossilium sectiles,” pl. iii. fig. 29, in 1826. See Petrifactions, p. 88. 
