INDEX. 



377 



LimAx, page 75 



Limpet, 349 



Lobsters, their history, 14 

 fear thunder, 1 5 

 known to Ari- 

 stotle, 21 



Long oyster, what, 22 



LuCERNARIA, 110 



Lucrine lake, its oysters, 226 

 Lumbricus, 63 

 Lungs, sea, 125 



Mactra, 192 

 Mammaria, 107 

 Medusa, 121 



excites burning pain 

 when handled, 

 125 

 cured kibed heels, 



ib. 

 phosphorous, ib. 

 Messalirrus, loses his life by a 

 Leech, 69 



MoLLUSCA, 75 



Murex, 279 



Murices, a dish in Lentu- 

 . lus's supper, 138 



productive of the 

 purple dye, 268 

 Mussel, 235 



noxious to many 

 constitutions, 236 

 Mya, 159 



Mya, a species producing 



pearls, page 163 

 Mytilus, 235 



N 



Nacre, 243 

 Nais, 97 

 Nautilus, 245 

 Nereis, 93 



illuminates the ocean, 

 ib. 

 Nerita, 344 

 Nettle, Sea, 121 



O 



y 



OXoSovgia, 109 

 Oniscus, 37 



Oppian, his account of the 

 Pinnophylax crab, 4 



his account of the 

 Sepia, or Cuttle, 

 118 

 Orata, Sergius, inventor of 



stews for oysters, 226 

 Ostrece crudce, 138 

 Oyster, 225 



British, in great re- 

 pute at Rome, ib. 

 Oyster-beds, account 

 of, 226 



