772 MOLLUSCA—CIRRIPEDA. 
digestion, applicable to their individual wants, and unconnected with the 
general nutrition of the common mass. Lamarck divides this class ito 
two orders. 
Order I. Ascmrarra.— Animals disunited, either isolated, or in groups, 
without internal communication, and not forming essentially a common 
mass. 
Order IJ. Borrytiarra. —Agglomerated animals, always united, and 
constituting a mass with a common covering. 
CLASS IV.-CIRRIPEDA. 
Soft anzmals, destitute of head and eyes, covered with a shell, and fixed, 
body inarticulated, furnished with a mantle, and tentacular, cirrous, many- 
jointed arms above. 
Tue class Cirripeda forming the genus Lepas, in the system of Linneus, 
was instituted by Lamarck, in 1812, and has since been adopted by Cuvier, 
Blainville, and other naturalists, as a distinct group of molluscous animals, 
intermediate between them and the articulated groups. The body in this 
class is always much shortened, immoveable, and inclosed in a shell, either 
itself fixed to an extraneous body, or elevated on a tubular and moveable 
peduncle, which permits some degree of motion. In the first case, the shell 
adheres immediately to the marine bodies, upon which it is fixed; while in 
the other shell, of which the valves are always-distinct and moveable, and 
inclosing the body more or less completely, is rrised on a peduncle of greater 
or less length. This foot-stalk or peduncle is tubular, tendinous, moveable, 
more or less contractile, and fixed by its base; and it does not appear that 
the animal has the power of changing its attachment, or shifting its place. 
The tunic or mantle of the Cirripeda, in some cases, envelopes only a por- 
tion of the body, and forms the external coat of the peduncle in those which 
have a foot-stalk. In others, as in the genera Otion and Cineras, the tunic 
envelopes all the body, leaving only an anterior opening for the arms. In 
none is this tunic divided into two lobes, as in the Conchifera and Mollusca. 
The jaws in the Cirripeda are lateral, and along the belly are numerous fila- 
ments named cirri, disposed in pairs, and composed of a great number of 
small joints. These cirri forming a kind of arms or fins, vary in number; 
sometimes there are twenty-four, or twelve pairs on each side. They are 
long, slender, unequal, and ciliated, with a horny skin. The longest are 
found at the summit of the body, and they gradually diminish, in sucha 
manner that the shortest are nearest the mouth. In repose, they are rolled 
up in a spiral form. These cirri or arms have no analogy with the tentacula 
