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CRINOIDEA. 295 



3. P. florealis, Schloth. Pelvis terminating ab- 

 ruptly, nearly horizontal. 



Length from seven-tenths to nearly half an inch. 



SYNONYMES. 



Kentucky Asterial Fossil, Park. Org. Rem. v. 2, pi. 13. 

 ENCRiNiTES7?crm/M, SCHI^OTH. petrif . (as quoted by Mil- 

 ler. ) 



This is extremely abundant in many parts of 

 Kentucky, and on the margins of the Mississippi 

 in a few places. Near Huntsville they are very 

 numerous, and on the surface of a fragment of 

 rock, three inches long, by two and a quarter wide, 

 sent to the Academy by Mr. Hazard, of that place, 

 I have enumerated eighteen specimens of this 

 species more or less entire, and two specimens of 

 the preceding species. On another still smaller 

 piece of rock are twenty-one specimens, all in 

 alto-relievo, two of which are of the preceding 

 species. On a third fragment of rock, thirty may 

 be counted, and on a fourth upwards of fifty. 



That these animals were pedunculated and fixed, 

 there cannot be any doubt. We see at the base 

 of the pelvis a small rounded surface, perforated 

 in the centre for the passage of the alimentary 

 canal, and on the outer margin are very short but 

 distinct radii of elevated lines, evidently intended 

 for articulation with the first joint of the column. 

 The column itself is always found in fragments 

 accompanying the body of the animal, but never 

 attached to it. 



[J. A. N. S., Phila., ist Ser., Vol. IV, 1825.] 



