pz The Natural Hijlory 



33. From that of Fig. 12. found in the Fields about Ifley i 

 whofe rays like thofe of the Polar ftones, are made of double 

 ranks of tranfaerfe lints, whereof the outermoft are much the 

 longer, and extended likewile to the rim of the fione ; its fub- 

 ftance alfo like that feems to be a yellow rubble, but not cafed thac 

 I can perceive with any fuch laminated fwbfc2inct,ox adorned with 

 Annukts, yet the Umbilicus of fome of them, is more beautiful 

 than theirs, it being fomtimes divided and foliated like a Rofe. 

 And fo much for the Bronti* depreffed on their bafts. 



35. Let us now proceed to others of a more elevated kind, 

 whereof thofe expreiTed Fig. 13. found fomwhere in the CbiU 

 tern, by the Country people called commonly Cap-fiones, from 

 their likenefs to a Cap laced down the fides, are of any the moft 

 uniform. For the centers of thefe, both at the top and bottom, 

 are on all hands equidiftant from the rim of the Jione, and the 

 rays interceding the centers being alfo equidiftant, cut it exa&ly 

 into five equal parts ; which in none of the former,nor thofe that 

 are to follow, either by reafon of their (hape, or eccentricity of 

 their Modioli, can poffibly be found. The rays of thefe are made 

 of two rows of points fet pretty deep in the body of the ftone, 

 out of which you are to fuppofe, according to Aldrovandus (who 

 refembles this Jione toadifarmed Echinus) proceeded the prickles 

 that Animal is fenced with. 



36. As alfo that other fom what of an oval form, Tab. 2. Fig. 14^ 

 whofe ce;z/r correfponds with the figure of theflone, and is not 

 concluded within the rays, as in the former, but is extended in a 

 ridge to the rim of it : from which center there defcend as it 

 were double rays, made up of two double fets of points ; which, 

 expanding themfelves as they draw toward the rim,at about mid- 

 way are furrounded with fingle Annulets, which each of them 

 including two points apiece, are therefore all of an oval Figure. 

 Its fubftance within is a black. Flint, though without it appear of 

 a cinereous colour, and was found in the Fields between Ewelm 

 and Brightvpell. 



37. At Pyrton I met with another of thefe, a black. Flint with- 

 in, and cinereous without, of oval figure and/ center like the for- 

 mer , but the defcending rays from it of a quite different 

 kind: for whereas they were made of points hollow and deep, 

 thefe on the contrary are all prominent ; and whereas they de- 

 scended 



