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alfo faintlywrinkled longiiudinall)', and obfoletely flriated 

 from the upper pofterior angle in a radiated manner. The 

 dorfal valve is Ions; flender and rounded, fmooth down 

 the middle, and fulcated on each fide; the cartilages that 

 conne6l the valves, and the peduncle at the bafe are 

 ufually of a reddifli-orange colour. Length an inch and 

 a half, and fometimes more, breadth of the largefl; part 

 an inch: colour blueifh-white, and glofly. 



This fpecies is frequently found adhering to the bot- 

 tom of (hips in great quantity, cluflered together of all 

 fizes, the fmaller ones adhering by fliort pedicles to the 

 larger. It particularly attaches itfelf to wood ; pieces of 

 timber are not uncommonly thrown upon our fiiores 

 covered with them : we oblerved one of fir above twenty 

 feet long, drifted on the coall of -Devonjliire, that was 

 completely covered with Bernacles. 



This is the fnell which was formerly fuppofed to pro- 

 duce the Bernacle Goofe, a curious account of which may 

 be feen in Gerardes Herbal. 



Anserifera. Lepas Anferifera. Lin. Syji. p. 1109. — Gmcl. Syfl. p. 3210. 



Chem. Conch, viii. t. 100. f. 856. 

 Gualt. t. 106. f. 2. 3. 

 Lifter. Conch, t. 440. f. 2S3. 

 Turt. Lin. Iv. p 163. 



L. with a comprefled (hell of five valves, much re- 

 fembling the preceding fpecies, but is readily difliti- 



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