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tremity of die tail, and not, as in the afcaris, at a con- 

 fiderable dillance fiom it. The afcaris wants the tranfverfe 

 rugs, whicli are fo llroncrly marked in tl.c ca.th-worm, as 

 well as the broad yellowifh band by which the body of the 

 latter is furrounded. 



The internal flruflure of the two worms is alfo extremely 

 different. In the earth-worm there is a complete and large 

 llomach, confiding of two cavities; and the inteftinal canal 

 in the latter is larger, and more formed into faccuh than in 

 the afcaris. The parts fubfervient to generation in thcfe 

 worms are very different : in the afcaris there is a dillinftion 

 of fex, but the common earth-worm is hermaphrodite. 



Dew-worms, though a final), and frequently regarded as 

 a defpicabie link, in the chain of nature, would, if loft, be 

 greatly miffed by tliofe who arc apt to confider them as a 

 nuifance. For, independently of their affording a large fup- 

 ply of food trt birds, &c. already noticed, they are of great 

 life in promoting vegetation, by boring, perforating, and 

 loofening the foil, and rendering it pervious to rain and the 

 fibres ot plants, by drawing ftraws and ftalks of leaves and 

 twigs into it ; and, moil of all, by throwing up fuch num- 

 bers of lumps called worm-cafts, which aft as a fine manure 

 for grain and grafs. 



* Makinus; Lug. Back with two rows of briilly 

 tubercles ; body pale red, round, and annulate, with greater 

 or lefs rings ; the tirft prominent, with two oppolile tufts 

 of ihort briflles on each, the lower part fmooth. It is 

 found on the fhores of England, and other parts of the 

 European coaft, where it buries itlelf in the fand to a great 

 depth, leaving a little riling with an aperture on the furface. 

 It is ufed as a bait for filhes. 



Vkkmicularis. Body white, with two rows of prickles. 

 It inhabits the wet and decayed trunks of trees, and among 

 moil! leaves, moving very expeditioully in moill places, but 

 ^willing itfelf up in dry ones. Its body is polifhcd and 

 glabrous. 



Variegaths. Rufous fpotted,. with fix rows of prickles. 

 It inhabits wet plantations, and is the moft beautiful of the 

 whole genus. The body red, very finely te^flellate with 

 brown, having a fanguiueous line running dovi-n the whole 

 body. It eafily breaks in pieces, and as eafily reproduces 

 what has been loft by accident or otherwife. 



TuBlFEX. Body reddifli, with two rows of prickles ; 

 the body is pellucid, very fimple, thin, and truncate at the 

 tip, with a dark inteftine. It is found at the bottom of 

 rivuletsj: where it forms a perpendicular tube of earth for its 

 habitation. 



LiNEATUS. Body white, with a longitudinal red line.. 

 Found vory abundantly on the fhores of the Baltic, among 

 fea-weed. It is pellucid, with rather a fhort body, having 

 a yellow artery on the back, and a bifid vein towards the 

 head. 



CiLlATUS. Body rufous, and cihate between the rings ; 

 the body is glabrous, witii about forty fegments ; the intcr- 

 feftions are armed with four tufts of fhort briftles. 



TUBICOLA. White, with a red dorfal fpot on each of 

 the fegments. This fpecies is found in the bays of Norway 

 that have a clayey bottom, in a round membranaceous tube, 

 covered with mud, and about an inch longer than itfelf. It 

 has twenty-five fegments in the body, of which the intcr- 

 lettions are armed with two brillles on each fide ; the intef- 

 ti.ae is black, and running down the whole body. 



EcuiuRvs. Body covered with rows ct granulations ; 

 the limd-part obtufely truncate, and furrounded with a 

 double crown of briftles. It inhabits the fandy bottom of 

 the Ihores of Belgium ; is moft obfervable in winter, and is 

 the chief food of eod-fifh. Body wliitifh-grey, with fulvous 



vifccra, about the fize of a perfon's middle finger; tongue 

 flefhy,*tliickifli, and boat-lhaped. 



* TuALASSEMA. Body ftriate, dirty red, with ftiining 

 red fpots, beneath grey ; mouth furrounded with a funnel- 

 like tube, which is wrmkled within, and plaited at the 

 margin ; the body is glabrous, mucous, thicker at one end, 

 and foinowhat pointed at the other ; the mouth is placed 

 above, with a faffron funnel. Inhabits the fhores of Corn- 

 wall. 



Eduli.s. Body whitifh^^iefli-colour, fubclavate behind, 

 dilated and papillous before ; mouth terminal, and fur- 

 rounded with a villous rim or wrinkle. There are two hun- 

 dred and fevcnty-eight rings between the villous part and 

 the hinder end, feparated by an annular itria ; the hind-part 

 bulbous, with a double papilla ; the fore-part befet with 

 numerous fiefh-colourtd one\i difpofed in tranfverfe rows. 



* OxyuKU.s. Body wliiiilh-livid, very fliarp at the hind 

 extremity, and obtufe before, with a round, retractile, and 

 exfertile probofcis. This fpecies is found on the Suflex 

 coaft, is about an inch and a half long, and annulate with 

 very fine ftrix ; fnout truncate, and very fine, granulate, 

 with a pore at the bale fcarccly vifible., 



Fhagilis. Body red, with lateral divided warts, and 

 fafciculate briftles. Tiie body of this fpecies refembles the 

 terreftris, with above five hundred fmooth and very brittle 

 rings ; the head is conic, with an approximate wrinkled 

 moHth. It inhabits the muddy bottom of the bays of Nor- 

 way. 



AilMlGKH. Body red, with double lanceolate lamella: 

 on the belly, and none on the fore-part ; is about two inches 

 long, and confifting of about two hundred rings. Found ia 

 the iflands of Norway. 



CiRRATUs. Body armed with very long cirri. Inhabits 

 the Norway feas. 



Sabellaris. Body jointed, and truncate at one end; 

 the interfeftions of the joints thick, and armed with two 

 prickles. It refembles the tubicula, and is found in the 

 Norwegian feas. 



LUMELLA, in the Glafs-trade, the round hole in the 

 floor of the tower of the leer, which is direftly over the 

 working furface, and by which the flame is let into the 

 tower. 



LUMELLO, in Geography, a town of Italy, in the de- 

 partment of the Gogna. This place lately gave name to a 

 diftrift in the duchy of Milan, called " Lumalline," on the 

 Gogna; once the refidence of the kings of Lombardy, now 

 a village; 26 miles S.W. of Milan. N. lat 48- 57'. E. 

 long. 8 47'. 



LUMHAG AN, an ifland in the ftraits of Malacca, near 

 the coall of Salengora, 12 miles long, and 5 broad; fe- 

 parated from the continent by a narrow channel, called the 

 " ftraits cf Lumhagan." N. lat. i 54'. E. long. loi" 24'. 



LUMI.TOCKI, a town of Sweden, in Eall Bothnia; 

 12 miles S.W. of Uiea. 



LUMINOSA StMiTA. See Semita. 



LUMINOUS CoLL'MN, and Fire. See the fubftan- 

 tives. 



Luminous Emanations, have been obferved from human 

 bodies, a,s alfo from thofe of brutes. The liglit arifing 

 from currying a horfe, or from rubbing a cat's back, are 

 known to moft. Inllances of a like kind have been known 

 on combirg a woman's head. Bartholin gives us an account, 

 wliich he entities " mulier fpletidens," of a lady in Italy, 

 whole body would ftiine, whenever flightly touched with a 

 piece of linen. Thefe effluvia of animal bodies have many 

 properties in common ivith thofe produced in glafs ; fuch as 

 their being lucid, their fnapping, and their not being ex- 

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