AND STAR-FISH. 



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theso form very attractive microscopical objects, as 

 may be seen from Figs. 94 and 95, the anchor- 



Fig. 94. 



Fig. 95. 



Anchor and Plate of 

 Synapta inhcerens. 



Anchor and Plate ot 

 Synapta digit ata. 



shaped spicules being characteristic of one genus, 



Synapta. Two other species Fig. 96. 



occur in British seas, one of 



them as far north as the 



Outer Hebrides Synapta 



Gallienii. This is also to \^J/^^ 



be met with off the Channel 



Islands. The spicules of 



another species, also British, 



called Synapta Buskii (Fig. 



96), are very remarkable in 



their shape. Foreign species 



of the same class of marine 



animals are much prized for 



the graceful and delicate beauty of the spicules, and 



Plate 



