CLASS VI. 



VERMES. 



WORMS. 



MlHI CONTUENTI SESE PERSUASIT RERUM NATURA, NIHIL 

 INCREDIB1LE EXISTIMARE DE EA. 



Plinii lib. xi. c. 3. 



uLOW, soft, expanding, tenacious of life, 

 sometimes capable of being new formed from 

 a part j the enliveners of wet places; without 

 head or feet; hermaphroditical ; to be distin- 

 guished by their feelers. 



Not improperly called by the antients, im- 

 perfect animals ; being destitute of head, ears, 

 nose, and feet, and for the most part of eyes ; 

 most different from insects ; from which Lin-. 

 n.eus has long since removed these works of 

 Nature. 



They may be divided into Intestinal, 



