152 



LEPAS. BARNACLE, 



Class VI, 



15. anati- L, Lin. Syst. IIOQ. Gm. Lin. 

 fera. 3211. Faun. Suec. No. 2120. 



List. Conch, tab. A3Q. 



Lin. Tr. viii. 28. 

 Mont. Test. Br. 15. 



L. consisting of five shells, compressed, affixed 

 to a pedicle, and in clusters. Tab. xli. Jig. %. 



Adheres to ships bottoms by its pedicles. 



The tentacula from its animal are feathered ; 

 and have given our old English historians and 

 naturalists the idea of a bird. They ascribed 

 the origin of the Bernacle Goose to these shells. 

 The account given by the sage Gerard, is so 

 curious, that I beg leave to transcribe it. 



' But what our eyes have seene, and hands 

 ' have touched, we shall declare. There is a 

 1 small island in Lancashire called the Pile 

 ' of Foulders, wherein are found the broken 

 ' pieces of old and bruised ships, some whereof 

 ' have been cast thither by shipwracke, and 

 6 also the trunks and bodies with the branches 

 ' of old and rotten trees, cast up there likewise; 

 c whereon is found a certaine spume or froth 

 ' that in time breedeth unto certaine shels, in 

 c shape like those of the Muskle, but sharper 

 4 pointed, and of a whitish colour ; wherein is 

 ' contained a thing in form like a lace of silke 

 1 finely woven as it were together, of a whitish 



