Class VI. PECTEN. SCALLOP. 219 



GENUS XIV. PECTEN. SCALLOP. 



Animal, a Tethys. 



Valves generally unequal rayed, with auricles 



near the hinge. 

 Hinge toothless, having a small ovated hollow. 



* One shell flattish. 



Lin. Syst. 1144. No. 185. Ostrea maxima. Lin.Tr. 1. maximus, 



Gm. Lin. 3315. viii. Q6. § rf(lL 



Faun. Suec. No. 2148. Mont. Test. Br. 143. 

 List. Angl. tal. v. Jig. 29. 



P. with fourteen rays, very prominent and 

 broad; striated lengthways above and below; 

 ears equal. Grows to a large size. Tab. lxii. 



Found in beds by themselves ; are dredged 

 up, and pickled and barrelled for sale. 



The antients say, that they have the power 

 of removing themselves from place to place by 

 vast springs or leaps.* This shell was called 

 by the Greeks ktsis, by the Latins Pecten, and 

 was used by both as a food ; and when dressed 



* Arist. Hist. An. lib. iv. c. 4. 



