jO^. The Statural Hi/lory 



74. And fo was the next ffone in form of a Peftunculut, oi 

 little Efcallop, Fig. 12. of a whitifti yellow colour, the ftrU 

 large and broad, but the tranfuerfe lines fmall, eared like the for- 

 mer on both fides t Which alio argues, that this ftone was never 

 heretofore the (liell of a FilTi, and thus call: into ftone by an Ani- 

 mal mold. For the Peclunculi, fays Rondelet'w, are a diftinct. 

 fiecies from the Peclines of larger Efcallops, and never have eafs 

 but on one fide, which indifferently are either on the right or left ; 

 except that we (hall fay that this Was once the fhell of a young 

 Feften, not yet come to it's full growth. 



75. To this alfo may bereferr'd another of the fame texture, 

 only fomwhat bigger^ and wanting the ears of a PeStunculites, or 

 little Efcallop -ftone, Fig. 13. which becaufe it (hews no figns of 

 its ears being broken off, I fuppofe may either reprefent the Cha- 

 maftriata P eftiniformis of Aldrovandm n , or elfe the PeSlunculu* of 

 Belloniws, which (as quoted by the Zoographer Gefner ) he not 

 only fays has no ears, but has exhibited it in Sculpture. 



j6. And fo perhaps may the nextftone, Fig. 14. except we 

 (hall rather make it the fir ft of the Conchites slriati, or ftreaked 

 Cockje ftones, which indeed I cannot chufe but aflent too, becaufe 

 of its bearing tob much on one fide, which T find the Peftinites 

 of Efcallop ftones do not : and becaufe it cannot be a Tellinites y 

 which (hell-fi(h (if at all) is never ftreaked that way. Let it 

 therefore pafs only for a ftreaked Cockle slone, which are plenti- 

 fully found not only at Heddingtori, and about Shot-over, but in 

 the Quarries near Stunsfield, North Leigh, and Little Milton ; and 

 are placed here, becaufe found like the Efcallop ftones, always with 

 theif (hels apart. 



7 7. Whereof there are fome largef, and as it were heaped up- 

 on one another, as in Tab. 4. Fig- 1 5 ; and others fingle, as in 

 Fig.- 1 7. The tzAfiell-fifhofi which kind, called Conchylia ftria- 

 ia, though thus lineated without, are always, fays Aldrovandus p , 

 plain and fmooth within, contrary to what we find in thefe Con- 

 chites ftriati, as is (hewn by Fig. 1 6. which shews the in-fide of 

 one of thofe ftones, not only lineated from the commiffure to the 

 rim, but adorned alfo with four or five tranfuerfe fillets, not made 

 of one, but feveralconjoyned lines, which feems alfo to conclude 



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