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LEPAS. BARNACLE. Class VI. 



15. AKTATI- \i. Lin. StjsI. WOQ. Gm. Lin. Lin. Tr.xm. 2^-. 

 FERA. 32\\.Faun.Suec.No.2\20. Mont. Test. Br. \5. 



List. Conch, tab. 439. 



L. consisting of five shells, compressed, affixed 

 tO' a pedicle, and in clusters. Tab. xli. Jig. 2. 

 Adheres to ships bottoms by its pedicles^ 

 The tentacula from its animal are feathered ; 

 and have given our old English historians and 

 naturalists the idea of a bird. They ascribed 

 the origin of the Bernacle Goose to these shells. 

 The account given bv the sage Gerard, is so 

 curious, that I beg leave to transcribe it. 



' But what our eyes have scene, and hands 

 * have touched, ^\e shall declare. There is a 

 ' small island in Lancashire called the Pile 

 ' of Foulders, wherein are found the broken 

 ' pieces of old and bruised ships, some whereof 

 ' have been cast thither by shipwracke, and 

 ^ also the trunks and bodies with the branches 

 ' of old and rotten trees, cast up there likewise; 

 ' whereon is found a certaine spume or froth 

 ' that in time breedeth unto certaine shels, in 

 ' shape like those of the Muskle, but sharper 

 ' pointed, and of a whitish colour; wherein is 

 ' contained a thing in form like a lace of silke 

 ' finely woven as it were together, of a whitish 



