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SUBKINGDOM ARTICULATA. 



containing the soft parts being cemented directly to a rock, 

 a pile, or a ship's bottom. It consists of a short tube with a 



lid of four pieces between 



Mg. S99. 



Fig. UOO. 



which the feet (cirri) are 

 thrust when in search of 

 food. (Fig. 398.) 



Lepadidse. — The 

 Stalked Barnacle is pedun- 

 culate, having the shell 

 (capitulum) containing the 

 soft parts on the extremity 

 of a long flexible stem. In 

 cleaning the hull of the 

 Great Eastern several years 

 ago, over three hundred 

 tons of barnacles 

 found attached to it. (Figs. 399, 400, 401 ) 



Shell of Barnacle. 



Body of CirHped 

 or Barnacle. 



were 



Fig. kOl. 



Lepas anatifira, Stalked Bamacloe. 



