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I. SPECIES. ACTINOCRINITES TRIACONTA DACTYLUS. 



THIRTY-FINGERED, RADIATED, LILY-SHAPED ANIMAL. 



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Specific Character* 



A Crinoidal animal, with a round column formed of many joints, on whose 

 summit is placed a pelvis of three plates supporting five hexagonal and 

 one pentagonal costal plate, on which the second costals, intercostals, and 

 scapulae, in series adhere, the latter sending off five arms, having each two hands 

 provided with three fingers. 



Column sending off at irregular distances auxiliary side arms, and terminat- 

 ing at the base in a bundle of fibrous elongations resembling roots. 



"Reference and Synonymes. 

 ROCK PLANT. Beaumont in Philosophical Transactions, 1676. 



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LISTER in Phil. Trans. 1674. No. 100, who considers the superior part 

 of this animal as the root of Entrochi. 



NAVE ENCRINITE. PARKINSON'S Organic Remains, VOL. n. PL. xvn. 

 fig. 3. where the draughtsman has very correctly represented the pentagonal 

 costal plate, and the subsequent arrangement of the other series on it. 



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G. CUMBERLAND, in Phil. Trans. VOL. v. PL. 11. fig. 1. 4. 5. 



Locality. 



In Mountain Limestone at the Villages Broughton and Stokes in Craven, 

 Yorkshire (Lister, 1674.) Mountain Lime formation of the Mendip Hills, 

 (Beaumont), and the Black Rock, near Bristol, where the two finest specimens 

 of this species in my collection were found by Mr, JAMES BENTON, an intelli- 



