Class VI. ASTERIAS. SEA-STAR. , 129 



Stella quinquefida paltnipes. Pontoppidans Norway, part 7- Pla- 

 Linckiifp. 2g. tab. i.fg. 2. ii. 179- ^^rT"^* 



AsT. with five very broad and membranaceous 

 rays, extremely thin and flat. 



Weymouth. From the Portland cabinet. 

 Tab. xxxiii. 



Pentadactylosaster spinosus re- Borlase's Cornwall, p. 25Q. g_ Spinosa. 

 gularis. Linckii, tab, iv. tab. xxv. Jig. 18. Spiny. 



No. 7. • - -.- _^, 



AsT. with five rays of almost equal thickness, 

 I beset with numerous spines. 



Gm,Lin.3l6l. Mem. Wern. Soc. 55g. Q Rubens 



Linckii, t. vii. y. g. /. ix. x. Adams in Lin. Tr. v. 10. 

 fig- 19, &c. 



* AsT. stellated with four or six, but generally 

 with five lanceolate convex spiny rays ; varies 

 infinitely in color. 



Ldth shore and islands of Scotland. 



[And, according to Mr. Adams, not uncom- 

 mon in Milford Haven, where it is found four- 

 teen inches in diameter, and of a pale orange 

 color. Ed. 



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