FOUND IN NORFOLK. 49 



fancy to bee the rudiment of the tayle of some goose or 

 duck to bee [expute crossed out] produced from it. 

 some whereof in ye shell & some taken out & spred 

 upon paper wee shall [still ?] keepe by us. 



[Fol. 34.] Stellse marinae" or sea starres in great 

 plentie especially about yarmouth. whether they bee 

 bred out of the [vrticas crossed out] vrticas squalders or 

 sea gellies as many report wee cannot confirme butt the 

 squalderes in the middle seeme to haue some lines or 

 first draughts not unlike, our starres exceed not 5 

 poynts though I haue heard that some with more haue 

 been found about Hunstanton and Burnham. where 

 are also found stellae marinae testacae or handsome 

 crusted & brittle sea [stars crossed out] starres much 

 lesse. 



The pediculus^ and culex marinus the sea lowse & 

 flie are [are crossed out] also no strarigeres. 



Physsalus Rondeletij^'' or eruca marina physsaloides 

 according to the icon of Rondeletius of very orient 

 green & purple bristles. 



Urtica marina™ of diuers kinds some whereof called 

 squalderes. of a burning and stinging qualitie if rubbed 



^' The Five-finger (Asterias rubens, L.) is a very numerous species on our 

 coast and very destructive. Brittle Stars (Ophioconta sp ?) are as Browne 

 states most frequent about Hunstanton, Burnham, and Cromer. Solaster 

 papposa is also found in the same localities. 



^ The Pediculus, or Sea Louse, is probably Talitrus locusta, the Sand- 

 hopper ; what may be intended by Culex marinus it is difficult to say. A 

 species of gnat is at times very numerous on the wet sand just above the 

 water-line. See also Notes no and 1:5, on a kindred subject. 



*' The Sea Mouse, Aphrodite aculeata. This is referred to again in the 

 Letters to Merrett. 



so Mr. E. T. Browne, of the Zoological Laboratory of University College, 

 London, has kindly furnished me with the following notes on this subject : 

 "Jonston (1657) gives figures of Anemones and large Medusae uTiAa the 

 name of Urtica. On Tab. xviii. he figures Anemones and other beasts, but 

 not medusae. The medusae are on the next Tab. (xix. ). Urtica marina 



