220 PECTEN. SCALLOP. Class VL 



with pepper and cummins, was taken medici- 

 nally.* 



The elegant figure of the crouching Venus, in 

 the Maffei collection, is placed sitting in a shell 

 of this kind. The sculptor probably was taught 

 by the mythology of his time, that the goddess 

 arose from the sea in a scallop. This perhaps 

 may have been the concha venerea of Pliny, so 

 styled from this circumstance. 



Another shell (Cypraa) has the same name, 

 for a different reason. 



The scallop is commonly worn by pilgrims 

 on their hat, or the cape of their coat, as a 

 mark that they had crossed the sea in their way 

 to the Holy Land, or to some distant object of 

 devotion. 



2. jacobjeus. Lin. Syst. 1144. No. 186. Lin.Tr.viu.Q7. 



lesser. Gm. Lin. 331 6. Mont. Test. Br. 144. 



List. Conch, tab. \65.Jig.2. 



P. with fifteen broad rays, rounded on the flat 

 side, and most finely transversely striated ; an- 

 gulated on the convex, and striated lengthways ; 

 ears nearly equal ; concave and smooth on the 

 upper side. 



A rare species in Great Britain. Tab. lxiii. 



* Athenceus, lib. iii. p. 90. 



