354 PATELLA. LIMPET. Class VI. 



13. gr^ca. Lin. Syst. 1262. No. 780. List. Conch, tab. 527. Jig- 



striated. Gm Lin 3728i 2 



Lin. Tr. viii. 236. 



P. with an oblong shell, perforated vertex, stri- 

 ated roughly to the edges. 



Inhabits the west of England. Tab. xcii. 

 fig- 3- 



14. aper- Lin. Tr. viii. 236. Mont. Test. Br. 491. *. 13. 



TURA ' /. 10. id. Sup. 155. 



* P. with a somewhat conic shell, ribbed length- 

 ways ; top perforated, bent ; minute. 



Found in the sand near Falmouth, and at 

 Salcombe bay, Devonshire. 



This genus was called by the Greeks xeira$, 

 and is mentioned by Aristotle and Athenceus ;* 

 who acquaint us, that it was used for the table; 

 and also inform us of its nature of adhering to 

 rocks. Aristophanes, with much humour, speaks 

 of an old woman who stuck as close to a young 

 fellow, as a Lepas to a rock. Linn&us has 

 adopted the Latin name of Patella, a sort of 

 dish ; and has applied it (as some other modern 

 writers have before) to this genus. 



* Aristot. Hist. An. lib. iv. c. 4. Athenceus, lib. iii. p. 85. 



