220 PECTEN. SCALLOP. Class VL 



with pepper and cummins, was taken medici- 

 nally.^ 



The elegant fig-ure of the crouching Venus, in 

 the Maffei collection, is placed sitting in a shell 

 of this kind. The sculptor probably was taught 

 by the mythology of his time, that the goddess 

 arose from the sea in a scallop. This perhaps 

 may have been the concha venerea of Pliny, so 

 styled from this circumstance. 



Another shell (CyprcEa) has the same name, 

 for a different reason. 



The scallop is commonly worn by pilgrims 

 on their hat, or the cape of their coat, as a 

 mark that they had crossed the sea in their way 

 to the Holy Land, or to some distant object of 

 devotion. 



2. JACOB^US. I'in. Syst. 1144. No. 18f). Lin.Tr. \'n\. Q7- 



lesser. Q^_ i^in. 3316. Mont. Test. Br. 144. 



List. Conch, tah. l65.Jig.2. 



P. with fifteen broad rays, rounded on the fiat 

 side, and most finely transversely striated ; an- 

 gulated on the convex, and striated lengthways ; 

 ears nearly equal ; concave and smooth on the 

 upper side. 



A rare species in Great Britain. Tab. Ixiii. 



* AthencEUS, lib, iii. p. QO. 



