TJie Oyster, 



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accounts of some old travellers wlio stated that tliey 

 saw Oysters growing upon trees^ were not so falso 

 as many supposed them. 



Tlie annexed figure is that of the Cock^s-comb 



Oyster^ Ostrea Crista-GalU, a native of the Indian 

 Seas, and a very remarkable shell, on account of its 

 crooked or deeply indented form ; the specific name 



means cock's-crest. The Chinese Window Oyster, 

 called Flacuna Flacenta^ which we may, if we lik&, 



