Class VI. ASTERIAS. SEA-STAR. 135 



Gm. Lin. 3160. xvii. Jig. 28. tab. xxxii. 24. Pappo- 



Stella dodeeactis Helianthemo Jig. 52. SA - 



. ..._.... 7 Twelve-rayed. 



simihs. Linckii, p. 42. tab. 



Ast. with twelve broad rays finely reticulated, 

 and roughened with fasciculated long papilla on 

 the upper part ; hirsute beneath ; red. 



These vary into thirteen, such as the Triscai- 

 decactis of Linckius. tab. xxxiv. Jig. 54. I 

 have had one of fourteen rays. 



Asterias caput medusas. Lin. Linckii, t. 18. J. 29. t. 1Q. J. 25. Caput 

 St/st. 1101. Gm. Lin. 3167. 30. t. 20. J. 32. Medusa. 



Soe-Soele. Pontop. Norway, 

 ii. 180. 



Ast. with five rays issuing from an angular 

 body; the rays dividing into innumerable 

 branches, growing slenderer as they recede 

 from the base ; the most curious of the genus. 



Found in the north of Scotland. The late 

 worthy Doctor William Borlase informed me 

 that it had been taken off Cornwall. 



Aristotle and Pliny* called this genus Ao-tyo, 



* Aristot. Hist. An. lib. v. c. 15. Plinii Hist. Nat. lib. x. 

 c. 60. 



