Class VI. ASTERIAS. SEA-STAR. 129 



Stella qulnquefida palmipes. Pontoppidaris Norway, part 7- Pla- 

 centa 

 Flat. 



Linckii,p. 2Q. tab. i.fig. 2. ii. 179. 



Ast. with five very broad and membranaceous 

 rays, extremely thin and flat. 



Weymouth. From the Portland cabinet. 

 Tab. xxxiii. 



Pentadactylosaster spinosus re- Borlase's Cornwall, p. 25Q. g. Spinosa. 

 gularis. Linckii, tab. iv. tab. xxv. Jig. 18. Spiny. 



No. 7. 



Ast. with five rays of almost equal thickness, 

 beset with numerous spines. 



Gm. Lin. 3l6l. Mem. Wern. Soc. 559. Q Rubens 



Linckii, t. vii. f. 9. t. ix. x. Adams in Lin, Tr. v. 10. 

 fg- 19, &c. 



* Ast. stellated with four or six, but generally 

 with five lanceolate convex spiny rays ; varies 

 infinitely in color. 



Leith shore and islands of Scotland. 



[And, according to Mr. Adams, not uncom- 

 mon in Milford Haven, where it is found four- 

 teen inches in diameter, and of a pale orange 

 color. Ed. 



vol. IV. k 



