LINNEAN SYSTEM. — VERMES. 165 
into an intelligible shape this immense assemblage of 
animals, we subjoin the characters he gives to the five 
principal divisions or orders under which he arranged 
the whole. However faulty they may now be thought, 
scientifically, we cannot but admire the ray of genius 
which he has cast over them. 
I. Inrestinz. Intestinal Worms are of a formation 
the most simple, and live, some within other animals, 
some in water, and a few in the earth. The Gordius 
(hair-worm) perforates clay to give a passage to springs 
and water ; the Lumbricus (or earth-worm) pierces the 
earth, that it may be exposed to the action of the air 
and moisture ; in like manner the T'evedo penetrates 
wood, and the Pholas and Mytilus rocks, to effect their 
dissolution. 
II. Moruusca. Pulpy Worms. These are naked, fur- 
nished with tentacula or arms, for the most part inha- 
bitants of the sea, and by their phosphorous quality 
illuminate the dark abyss of waters, reflecting their light 
to the firmament: thus what is beneath the water cor- 
responds with that which is above. 
III. Trsracea. Shell-fish. These are Mollusca co- 
vered with calcareous habitations or shells, which they 
carry about with them, themselves producing and often 
penetrating calcareous bodies: like insects, they are 
multiplied into a vast number of species and varieties, 
and both in form and colours exhibit splendid ex- 
amples of the Almighty Artificer. 
IV. Zoopuyra (Coralline Worms) are composite ani- 
mals, holding a medium between animals and vegetables. 
Most of them take root and grow up into stems, mul- 
tiplying life in their branches and deciduous buds, and 
in the transformation of their animated blossoms or 
polypes which are endowed with spontaneous motion. 
Plants, therefore, resemble zoophytes, but are destitute 
of animation and the power of locomotion ; and zoo-: 
phytes are, as it were, plants, but furnished with 
sensation and the organs of spontaneous motion. Of 
these some are soft and naked, and are called Zoophytes ; 
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