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short and thick, but slightly compressed and notched at the 
extremity. Diameter, two feet. : 
Taken in Tomales Bay, by Mr. Samuels. 
ASTERIAS HELIANTHOIDES. Brandt. 
Asterias helianthoides, BRANDT; l. c. 71. 
Hab. Sitka, (Mertens;) Puget Sound, (Suckley;) To- 
: males Bay, (Samuels.) 
ASTERIAS HELIANTAUS. Lamk. 
Asterias helianthus, Lamr; Gray; An. § Mag. Nat. Hist. vi. 179. 
Hab. Mazatlan, (Moores.) 
SOLASTER DECEMRADIATA. Brandt. 
Asterias endeca, var. decemradiata, BRANDT ; & c. 71. 
_ Hub. Sitka, (Mertens.) 
LINCKIA LEVIUSCULA, Stimpson, n. s. 
Disk very small; rays elongated, cylindrical, in length 
* times the diameter of the disk. Upper surface covered 
vin slightly protuberant, uniform, spinulose paxilli, which 
we Somewhat irregularly crowded together, leaving deep 
«ety narrow chinks leading to the holes in the network 
2 m skin. "The spinules of the paxilli are so crowded that 
Surface of each appears nearly smooth. Below, the 
Tu are still more crowded, but are here quadrate in 
(e and arranged in three or four rows on each side of 
x Y ambulacra] furrow; those of the ambulacral row hav- 
c their Spinules less crowded and somewhat longer, form- 
Dh marginal series. Diameter, two inches. 
.. “und in Puget Sound, by Dr. Suckley. 
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