58 FASCIOLA. FLUKE. Class VI. 



GENUS VI. FASCIOLA. FLUKE. 



Body oblong; a pore or sucker at the extre- 

 mity, and another on the belly. 



1. Hepa- Fasciola. Lin. Syst. 1077. Rcesel. app. tab. xxxii. f. 5. 

 tica. Gm. Lin. 3053. Faun. Suec. Borlase Nat. Hist. Corn- 



Liver. jy o 2075. Amcen. Acad. wall, tab. xx. Jig. 10. 



F. with an ovated body, a little sharper on 

 the fore part; in the centre is a white spot, 

 with a line of the same color passing towards 

 each extremity. 



Infests the livers of sheep and hares. 



2. Trachea. Montagu in Mem. Wern. Soc. IQ4. t. 7./. 4. 



Poultry. 



[F. with a round body, acuminated at the pos- 

 terior end ; a large arm or stalk extends from 

 the side, and terminates in an aperture, used 

 as a sucker, by which it adheres to the trachea ; 

 color red ; length about an inch ; breadth not 

 half a line. 



Found in the trachea of poultry, and pro- 

 bably of partridges and pheasants, occasioning 

 the complaint called in Devonshire, the Gapes, 



