CLASS VI. 



VERMES. 



WORMS. 



MlHI CONTUENTl SESE PERSUASIT RERUM NATURa, NIHIL 

 INCREDIBILE EXISTIMARE DE EA. 



Plinii lib. xi. c. 3. 



»oLOW, soft, expanding, tenacious of life, 

 sometimes capable of being new formed from 

 a part j the enliveners of wet places ; without 

 head or feet; hermaphroditical ; to be distin- 

 guished by their feelers. 



Not improperly called by the antients, im- 

 perfect animals ; being destitute of head, ears, 

 nose, and feet, and for the most part of eyes ; 

 most different from insects; from which Lint- 

 N^us has long since removed these works of 

 Nature. 



They may be divided into Intestixal, 



